{"id":2616,"date":"2025-01-28T21:18:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T21:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/hawaii-governor-a-doctor-blames-kennedy-for-measles-deaths-in-samoa\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T21:18:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T21:18:53","slug":"hawaii-governor-a-doctor-blames-kennedy-for-measles-deaths-in-samoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/hawaii-governor-a-doctor-blames-kennedy-for-measles-deaths-in-samoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii Governor, a Doctor, Blames Kennedy for Measles Deaths in Samoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was a spasm of tragedy on a remote Pacific island that only a few months later was overshadowed by a global pandemic. But to Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii, the measles outbreak on neighboring Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly babies and children, was a preventable catastrophe wrought by the man President Trump now wants to steer American health policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In December of 2019 Dr. Green, an emergency medical physician and Hawaii\u2019s Democratic lieutenant governor at the time, rounded up a medical team and thousands of vaccine doses and flew to Samoa to help. Last month he flew to Washington aiming to alert lawmakers from both parties about the role Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mr. Trump\u2019s nominee for health and human services secretary and a longtime vaccine skeptic, played in the Samoa outbreak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Kennedy\u2019s confirmation hearings are on Wednesday and Thursday before two Senate committees, which will then vote on whether his nomination advances to the full Senate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Democrats are <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2025\/01\/07\/rfk-samoa-measles-vaccines\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">attempting to leverage<\/a> Mr. Kennedy\u2019s connection to the Samoa outbreak to build opposition to his nomination. Dr. Green recently <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KOCoSXHDljA\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">appeared in an ad<\/a> by a liberal advocacy group, 314 Action, saying, \u201cR.F.K. Jr. had spread so much misinformation that the country stopped vaccinating, and that caused a tragic and fatal spread of the measles.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an interview on Monday, Dr. Green said that based on his conversations so far, if the full Senate vote was taken anonymously, \u201cR.F.K. Jr. would be defeated 70-30 or worse.\u201d At the same time, he said, \u201cthe political climate has everyone under great pressure to go with the president, or be labeled disloyal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A spokeswoman for Mr. Kennedy did not respond to requests for comment on Tuesday. In the past he has blamed Samoa\u2019s measles outbreak on \u201can Indian-manufactured MMR vaccine,\u201d referring to the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Green, 54, arrived in Hawaii in 2000 as a young physician with the National Health Service Corps, and was often the only doctor serving small rural communities on Hawaii\u2019s Big Island. After he was elected to the state legislature in 2012, he cared for patients on weekends. He was barred from outside employment after he was elected governor in 2022, but he says he volunteers as a \u201cstreet medicine\u201d practitioner offering health care to unsheltered veterans and other people in need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Samoa\u2019s outbreak had its roots in a tragic error. In 2018, nurses preparing MMR vaccines mixed the doses with a muscle relaxant instead of water. The tainted shots caused the deaths of two infants and ratcheted up parents\u2019 fears about the safety of vaccines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Vaccination skeptics often wrongly link childhood vaccines to autism, and after the incident Samoa\u2019s prime minister, whose grandson happens to have autism, halted the island nation\u2019s vaccination program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As a result of the deaths and the ban, fewer than one-third of Samoa\u2019s 1-year-olds received the MMR vaccine in 2018, down from as high as 90 percent in 2013, according to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www1.racgp.org.au\/newsgp\/clinical\/anti-vaccination-advocates-double-down-as-measles\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the World Health Organization.<\/a> Infections began to surge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Children\u2019s Health Defense \u2014 a group led by Mr. Kennedy that in 2022 was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/18\/technology\/facebook-instagram-robert-kennedy-jr-misinformation.html\" title=\"\">banned for a time from Facebook and Instagram<\/a> for what the platforms said was the spread of medical misinformation \u2014 posted news of the prime minister\u2019s decision to stop the vaccine program on its website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Both Mr. Kennedy and his friend Del Bigtree, who is also skeptical of vaccines, have large, international online followings, and they used the two babies\u2019 deaths to underscore their message about the dangers of vaccines. Mr. Bigtree later served as communications chief for Mr. Kennedy\u2019s presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As an American with a famous name and a powerful network that had amplified parents\u2019 fears in Samoa, Mr. Kennedy \u201cpreyed on people that were vulnerable,\u201d Dr. Green said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In June of 2019, Mr. Kennedy and his wife, the actress Cheryl Hines, traveled to Samoa at the invitation of the prime minister, who treated the couple like visiting royalty. \u201cMy husband wants to move here,\u201d a laughing Ms. Hines told reporters during the trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During the visit Mr. Kennedy posed for a photo with Edwin Tamasese, a coconut farmer whom he has called a \u201cmedical freedom hero.\u201d Mr. Kennedy later wrote on the Children\u2019s Health Defense website that the trip had been arranged by Mr. Tamasese, who <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-50682881\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">was arrested<\/a> months later for spreading vaccine misinformation and promoting ineffective measles treatments like vitamins and papaya leaf extract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Kennedy also <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/gApNv#selection-1283.140-1283.280\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said on the website<\/a> that he visited Samoa because health officials and the prime minister \u201cwere curious to measure health outcomes following the \u2018natural experiment\u2019 created by the national respite from vaccines.\u201d Mr. Kennedy said he was offering them help in creating a tracking system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He later denied that he had been in Samoa to push his views on vaccines. In a 2021 interview for \u201cShot in the Arm,\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/shotinthearmmovie.com\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a documentary about vaccine hesitancy<\/a> and the Covid-19 pandemic, Mr. Kennedy told the filmmaker, Scott Hamilton Kennedy, who is no relation, that \u201cI didn\u2019t go to Samoa, by the way, for anything to do with that issue.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Measles are highly contagious, and by late 2019, the number of new infections in Samoa was doubling each week. The first child <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/30\/there-are-no-words-samoa-buries-its-children-as-measles-outbreak-worsens\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">died on Oct. 13<\/a>. A month later, with 16 people dead from measles complications, the government declared a national emergency and made MMR shots mandatory. Four days after that, Mr. Kennedy sent a letter to Samoa\u2019s prime minister urging the Samoan health ministry to \u201cdetermine, scientifically, if the outbreak was caused by inadequate vaccine coverage or alternatively, by a defective vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In early December, with <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www1.racgp.org.au\/newsgp\/clinical\/anti-vaccination-advocates-double-down-as-measles\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">over 3,700 new cases<\/a> and more than 50 dead, Samoa\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-50682881\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">communications minister said<\/a> anti-vaccination conspiracy theorists were \u201cslowing us down\u201d in the effort to vaccinate people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Green contacted Samoa\u2019s health minister, Faimalotoa Kika Stowers. Could he bring a team on a vaccination mission? Ms. Stowers relayed his offer to the prime minister, who in the face of the growing death toll \u201coffered to shut down the country\u201d to help the Hawaii team work, Dr. Green recalled in an interview.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Within 48 hours Dr. Green secured volunteers, air travel from donors and 50,000 doses of vaccine from UNICEF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His team landed in Samoa at 5:30 a.m. on Dec. 4 and with several hundred Samoan volunteers fanned into the countryside. Residents hung red flags or scraps of cloth outside their homes if they needed vaccine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Green recalled visiting a home where a child had died so recently that her skin was still flushed with fever. \u201cI felt the warmth leaving a child\u2019s body after she died in a preventable measles outbreak,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Global public health experts have said several factors, including a slow government response and Samoans\u2019 limited access to health care, contributed to the outbreak. 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