Is the MMR Vaccine Being Given to Children With Measles?
that's the "horrifying breaking news" from RFK Jr's Children's Health Defense...
In case you missed it, the organization that RFK Jr created, Children’s Health Defense is reporting that children with measles are being given the MMR vaccine.
While that would be horrifying news if true, it is, of course, propaganda that is being laundered by anti-vaccine influencers.
Is the MMR Vaccine Being Given to Children With Measles?
What’s their evidence for this horrifying breaking news?
A policy statement from the county health department or guidelines from the local Children’s Hospital?
“An additional text message received by the same medical doctor revealed the medical staff in the child’s area were instructed to give the MMR vaccine to children who were already infected with measles — even though Merck, maker of the most common MMR vaccine, states the vaccine should not be given to anyone experiencing a moderate to high fever, one of the most common symptoms of measles.”
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Nope.
Their source is an unnamed ‘doctor’ who received what may have been an anonymous text from someone with the “news.”
Are you convinced?
Hopefully you are not, as giving a child an MMR when they already have symptoms of the measles would go against all treatment guidelines. It would even be contraindicated if the child was very sick already.
Sure, we do often give unvaccinated children and adults a dose of MMR if they have very recently been exposed to MMR, but that is well before they would have any chance of developing measles symptoms. Giving a post-exposure dose any later wouldn’t be helpful, so wouldn’t be done.
So no, the MMR vaccine is not being given to children who already have measles.
Add this to the long list of myths and misinformation that we have been seeing since the measles case count has gone up this year. Of course, none of these anti-vaccine arguments are new. We have seen them all before - every time there are big outbreaks of measles!
And get vaccinated if you have not already had two doses of MMR. It looks like we are in for a measles year!