Heather Cox Richardson
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7,649 appearances
90 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard yesterday
Heather Cox Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He accused those who support vaccines of misleading the American public for the benefit of the pharmaceutical industry and the healthcare industry.
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This seems to explain why he has claimed, without evidence, that the Texas children who died of measles were malnourished, and that we don't know what was killing the eighty-three Samoans who died in the country's twenty nineteen measles epidemic, during which Kennedy associated with members of the anti-vaccine movement there.
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It would also explain why he promised to turn away from promoting vaccination to exploring new treatments for measles, including vitamins.
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And it would help to explain the effort to change the vaccine schedule for children by separating the MMR vaccine into single disease vaccines.
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Rather than two shots requiring two doctors' visits, the vaccine series would require six.
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Experts say such a change will mean poorer children will not get the whole vaccine series, putting them and their
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our communities at risk.
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If overall health can fight off germs and illnesses, then measures like the pasteurization of milk and the tracking of foodborne illnesses are unnecessary.
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The US is experiencing a particularly bad wave of foodborne illness.
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It's driven both by hot weather that nurtures food contamination and by federal funding cuts that scaled back the ability of federal agencies to conduct food inspections and provide grants to state and local health departments that used to be able to trace outbreaks quickly.
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Deirdre McPhillips of CNN reported that so far this year, the US has reported about 10,500 cases of foodborne illness.
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Between 2021 and 2025, the annual average was about 1,500 cases.
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At least 9,481 people in 17 states have fallen ill with cyclosporiasis carried by lettuce from Taylor Farms, and thousands more cases are being investigated.
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It's the largest cyclospora outbreak in US history, spurred by cuts of more than forty percent to food safety detection systems.
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It's not just lettuce.
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Frozen organic blueberries sold in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia have been recalled for E.
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coli.
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Fresh jalapenos from Taylor Farms have been recalled for salmonella.
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One point five million dozen eggs sold in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and New Mexico have also been recalled for salmonella.
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Anna Skinner of Newsweek notes that while the focus has been on produce, in fact, FDA records show what she calls a steady stream of recalls that includes prepared foods, salad dressings, soups, bakery items, and ready to eat products potentially contaminated with salmonella, listeria, or foreign materials, including pieces of metal.
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