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vaccine plus the mmr vaccine. that's how most of the studies were done. i could do a study where you do ten shots of vodka and the other control gets 10 shots of vodka and jack daniel's and they say drive a car, look, there was just as many car accidents in both groups therefore jack daniel's does not cause inhib ration. >> how do you have a conflict of interest when you're running a database of 10 million people? >> we know ai can be biased at the time. were would that include working with pharmaceutical companies? >> absolutely. let's develop that protocol can as we look at the issues. >> so just so i'm understanding correctly, who would conduct it, private companies working together? >> look, i think the vaccine data should not be private inside of the cdc, we the american people own that database. it should be for made public. one of the things that robert kennedy, jr. should do right away and we talked about this for years is just make all of the databases public. let everybody do that study. why are we hidin

put in the data pretty is unfortunate obviously had fraudulent research, that point concerns about mmr and autism is been totally you know rejected anyone who thinks kennedy but do is test nadh do a major scientific investigation and i suggested that he get a couple billion dollars. have scientists that hypotheses autism develop research programs that that we can look at defined root causes of autism what ever they are because clearlyin something is happening in our country for us to go up plus 140 people that have autism and so these things are think more effective in arguing you know people's comments and pass them in kennedy to the research as being legitimate and fourthly turnout to be something else and i and obviously is dismissed that sentence out i think the part of this is just open the fda clearly won't look at the current covid-19 vaccine, right as part of developing it operation warp speed and we seen an open transparent review by know about the safety of the mrna vaccines and how we sing at what we should see it coming up in i clinical practic, and largely. [inaudible]. an

and this week, at least 80 people knew people were vaccinated with that mmr.easles, mumps and rubella vaccine like the difficulty here is that for those children, for the child, children at population 1 in 5 kindergartners in gaines county does not have that mmr vaccine. that is about 18% exemption rate. that is the highest rate in the state of texas, according to the texas department of health. and they're worried that these measures might not be enough to to curb the spread of the virus. again, measles is a very contagious illness. it spreads through coughing and sneezing. it can cause fever, rashes. in severe cases, it can lead to blindness. pneumonia, swelling of the brain as well. it can be deadly. and deaths mostly occur in that unvaccinated population, especially in children under five years old. another concern. this virus now is spreading into new mexico, just across the border in lee county. now also a state of emergency declared by authorities there after a third case. three cases total were diagnosed this week, including one unvaccinated teenager i

so at the same time he was discrediting the mmr shot.nts for competing vaccines that would capitalize on the fear and doubt he had created. and after years of intense scrutiny and analysis, the wakefield study was finally retracted in 2010, a disciplinary board found that wakefield was guilty of irresponsible and misleading reporting of research findings, potentially having such major implications for public health. and yet, despite all of that, andrew wakefield still had some very big fans. today, take a look at this video we dug up from a rally in 2019. see if you recognize the speaker. >> i want. >> to say something about andy because in any justice society, we would be building statues to andy wakefield. >> statues for the guy with the bogus study who stood to profit from his rhetoric and his fake study. okay, this is the anti-vax world that rfk jr has for years proudly pushed for. and it's not just the peddling of bad science that kennedy has in common with wakefield, it's also the fact that he stands to financially benefit from tha

today have been. >> vaccinated against mmr, against measles, mumps, rubella. he says you know they're hoping to. see more, but that is, of course. >> a start. >> now, part of the reason potentially, that we're seeing this outbreak is that the vaccination rates are low in terms of the kindergarten vaccine exemption rate, it's one of the highest in the state of texas, at 18% of kindergartners in the 2023 2024 school year. that compares with about 3.3% nationally, which is still too high. you know, the cdc says that's the highest it's ever been. they want to keep vaccination rates at 95% in order to prevent the spread of measles. and of course, we know the vaccine works really well. phil, when it came out in 1963, we started to see cases drop significantly. and measles was declared eliminated in 2000. but of course, we keep seeing cases. >> i do want to ask you about bird flu. you've been leading our coverage on that. what are you hearing about the dairy worker in nevada who was tested positive? >> yeah, this is a really interesting case because we saw this diffe

every vaccine plus the mmr vaccine. that is in most of the studies are done. i would call them jack daniels studies. i could do a study where you do 10 shots of vodka and then you get 10 shots of vodka plus a jack daniels. and they say, look, there were just as many car accidents in both groups, therefore jack daniels does not cause any relation. chelsea: but how would this new study avoid a conflict of interest? del: how do you have a conflict of interest when you running an ai program of a database through 10 million people? chelsea: we know ai can be biased at times. del: then you bring in multiple science and savoring every ai let elon musk bring in ai. chelsea: with that include working with pharmaceutical companies? del: absolutely. robert kennedy junior said it. we are not trying to have a bias, everyone should be at the table. if it is your product, come into the room, let's all sit down and figure out how a proper study would done. let's all develop that protocol and let's stick with that protocol as we look at

in 2018, two more kids died following the mmr vaccine and the government of samoa banned the mmr vaccine. i arrived a year later when vaccination rates were already below any previous level. i went there nothing to do with vaccines. i went there to introduce a medical system that would digitalize records in samoa and make health delivery much more efficient. i never gave any public statement about vaccines. you cannot find a single samoan who will say i didn't get a vaccine because of bobby kennedy. i went in june of 2019. the measles outbreak started in august. so clearly i had nothing to do with the measles. sen. wyden: mr. kennedy -- mr. kennedy: if you will let me finish -- sen. wyden: you have had some time to respond. mr. kennedy: if you've let me finish, 83 people died when the . when the tissue samples were sent to new zealand, most of those people did not have measles. we don't know what was killing them. the same outbreak occurred in tonga and no extra people died. there were seven measles outbreaks in the 13 years. sen. wyden: the nominee wrote a book saying that people have b

the outbreak is under investigation, health officials urging two rounds of the mmr vaccine to controlrst lady will walk away with $28 million as part of the 40 million-dollar amazon agreement for her new documentary deal that came together back in december between amazon founder jeff bezos and president trump, there been reported in the 10 million range we are expecting bruce ratner to direct from the rush-hour movies. and the steps in the immigration crackdown and cost-cutting efforts firing 20 immigration judges from backlog courts and 13 judges that had been sworn in yet. a major legal battle that is underway in the court over the legality of trump's birthright citizenship order, the new york times op-ed believe it or not same president trump might have a case over the 14th amendment stating that the supreme court has never ruled that children born to those living illegally in the u.s. are citizens the story about the courts there is a backlog of 3.7 million cases. cheryl: the birthright citizenship, didn't donald trump forgive me wrong untrue social post about this, the reason tha

the mmr vaccination is up to 97% effective so the average risk to the vaccinated individual is relatively good but we need to make sure we get those numbers up so if you're not up to date on your vaccine, get vaccinated and boosters are generally not recommended but if you're concerned, you can talk to your doctor about getting tested for a titre. those vaccinated before 1969 you can certainly have that conversation but, again, overall the risk is relatively low if you are vaccinated. >> whit: interesting, all right, dr. sutton, we always appreciate it. thank you so much. >> of course. >> whit: let's get another check of the weather and head to meteorologist brittany bell from our new york station wabc. brittany, good morning. >> brittany: good morning. so it is still cold, but it's getting warmer. nebraska, it's up to 10 but that's an improvement from a record low of thursday and friday morning of 17 degrees below zero so across the lower 48, looking at temperatures in the teens, 20s and 30s, kansas city, 11, jackson, mississippi, 36. raleigh, 21. but those numbers are 5 to 10 to 15 degr

clinics have been open now in extended hours, seven days a week, and last week about 80 people got their mmreir measles, mumps and rubella vaccines. but this area in one in about five kindergartners is not vaccinated against measles. that is the highest exemption rate in the county, about 18%, according to the texas department of health. measles is an extremely contagious virus that is spread through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes, and in some cases it can lead to blindness, pneumonia, and swelling of the brain, and it can be deadly, especially for those unvaccinated people or unvaccinated. those who have not completed their second dose of the vaccine. and for children under the age of five. the cdc warns that once an outbreak starts in an area with low vaccination rates, it is extremely difficult to contain it. and now the virus is spreading over to new mexico. after two adults were diagnosed with the virus after a teenager unvaccinated teenager was also diagnosed in lee county, just across the border from texas. authorities nationwide are warning parents to make sure tha

the data exists, the real data about vaccinations and mmr exist.hat causes autism. and people like rfk who peddle these conspiracy theories literally stand in the way of getting to the bottom of what causes certain certain diseases. what's your take on how this is proceeding so far? >> yeah. >> it's been really. >> interesting because essentially. mr. kennedy is having to recast the statements he's made for friendlier audiences. >> you know. >> in the. >> anti-vaccine world and on. >> podcasts towards. >> a, you know, these. >> senators and assure them that despite his. >> very long. >> track. >> record of. questioning the. >> safety of vaccines, that he's not going to go. >> into hhs. as an. >> anti-vaccine critic. >> intent on dismantling. >> a core piece of the. >> public health system. >> yeah. and as. >> senator hassan pointed out. every time. we go back to the. >> debunked. >> thoroughly debunked link between vaccines and autism, it. >> prevents us. >> from. doing actual. >> research on. >> the causes and. >> treatment of autism. so it's. >>

mmr vaccine causes autism, despite mountains of evidence that it does not. >> promising disruption is easy. >> the test of a cabinet is whether it delivers results or guest for first. >> one. >> to muster out is rfk jr. so a lot of controversy over these cabinet picks. joining us now, democratic. senator richard. >> blumenthal of connecticut. >> which cabinet pick. >> are you most. >> concerned about, senator? >> i think. >> i'm most. >> concerned about tulsi gabbard, but it's really a pretty close second in robert kennedy jr. they both failed to recognize the facts. and robert kennedy jr. >> poses a. >> real threat to our public health. tulsi gabbard to our national security. we're voting today on. a nominee for fbi. >> director kash. >> patel. >> who wants. >> to turn the fbi, apparently. into a sycophantic goon squad rather than the independent, impartial, objective law enforcement agency it ought to be. as of enemies list, which he calls government gangsters. and he's on a manhunt. >> for them. >> and so. >> we're all at risk as. >> a result. >> of this. >> kind. >> of skewed. >>

now, the cdc recommends receive their first dose of the mmr vaccine between 12 and 15 months and secondn 4 and 6 years old, and they're working with texas officials to get more people protected, especially young kids, to contain this outbreak, whit. this goes beyond texas. the cdc says at least 285 cases of measles were reported nationwide last year. that's the highest numbers since 2019. whit? >> whit: all right. christiane cordero, thanks so much. we'll have much more on this coming up in our second hour. dr. darien sutton joins us with what parents need to know about the symptoms and advice on protecting kids from the measles. >> rachel: yeah. looking forward for those tips. >>> time now for the weather, and meteorologist brittany bell joins us from our new york station, wabc. what is it looking like? >> brittany: it's been so cold and so let's blame the groundhog and not me. >> whit: it's punxsutawney's fault. >> brittany: yes, it's his fault, but things will get better in a few days, but i want to start with lincoln, nebraska, you broke a report low temperatures thursday and friday

and the vaccine is one of our the mmr vaccine. measles. mumps. rubella vaccine.rmulated together. it's one of the safest vaccines we have. and highly effective. 97% effective in two doses. >> doctor peter hotez, as always, we really appreciate your expertise. thanks for joining us. good to. >> see you. thanks for having me. >> that does it for us. thank >> that does it for us. thank you so much for watching. i'm with fatigue and light-headedness, i knew something was wrong. then i saw my doctor and found out i have afib, and that means there's about a 5 times greater risk of stroke. symptoms like irregular heartbeat, heart racing, chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue, or light-headedness, can come and go. but if you have afib, the risk of stroke is always there. if you have one or more symptoms, get checked out. making that appointment can help you get ahead of stroke risk. this is no time to wait. the same towers as big wireless. so you get the same coverage. >> wow. >> wow. >> for unlimited talk and text —sounds like you need to vaporize that cold. dayquil

the mmr vaccine. robert f kennedy jr, our nation's new health secretary, says that taking that vaccine makes us the land of the cowed home of the slave. robert f kennedy jr has advocated. i kid you not, not only against that vaccine. in the abstract, he has advocated specifically that getting measles is good for you, that you should try to get measles, quote, facts about measles. you won't learn from miss fama pedia. i don't even know what that means. number six unlike merck's vaccine, wild measles infection confers lifetime immunity from measles having measles in childhood, he says, quote, may also reduce the risk of atopic disease, heart disease, hodgkin's and non-hodgkin's lymphomas, and some other cancers. got that? get measles. try to get measles. it's good for you. it keeps you from getting cancer, says podcast man. but if you're the chairman of the senate health committee and you're a practicing physician. and our country has a current measles outbreak that has already put at least 13 kids in t

to see some numbers creeping down in terms of especially children who are getting vaccinated against mmr and particularly in gaines county, the center of this outbreak. in texas, we see an exemption rate for kindergartners of 18%, john. and that is, of course, one of the big concerns about why we're seeing this outbreak. >> yes, angie always talks about what you need like 90 to 95% vaccination rate to keep measles away. that is nowhere near where they need to be. meg tirrell, thanks so much for being with us, kate. and joining us right now is doctor george benjamin. he is the executive director of the american public health association, a leading public health organization. doctor, thanks for your time. you have that measles outbreak in texas. we're hearing it's the state's worst in nearly 30 years, all because of as we look as meg was reporting on low vaccination rates there. add to that you have moves among state health officials, like in louisiana, moving to pull back in promoting vaccination programs. what is the impact of just these two things together? what are you hearing from you

we have called the mmr vaccine. and this is why it's is so tragic. all of this is preventable.none of those kids had to be hospitalized. none of those kids will have to have would have to have measles complications. >> there are some reports that that some of the people have gotten sick, were vaccinated. >> yeah, a very small number. i think, of the 60 so far. um, almost all of them were either unvaccinated or unknown. uh, not vaccinated or unknown vaccination status or on for um, were vaccinated. um, and that probably means they got a single dose of the vaccine, which is 93% protective, which is about what you'd expect. but overwhelmingly this these are unvaccinated kids. >> all right. doctor peter hotez, appreciate it. thank you. coming up, new details on the theft ring targeting high profile pro athletes. >> this part changed my life. >> superman is now the winner of the bafta award for best documentary. >> she came flying in and she just yelled, i love you. >> superman was in a wheelchair and was willing to go public with. it was huge. >> i told him i would do whatever i co

we have called the mmr vaccine. and this is why it's is so tragic. all of this is preventable. none of those kids had to be hospitalized. none of those kids will have to have would have to have measles complications. >> there are some reports that that some of the people have gotten sick, were vaccinated. >> yeah, very small number. i think of the 60 so far. um, almost all of them were either unvaccinated or unknown. uh, not vaccinated or unknown vaccination status. around four, um, were vaccinated. and that probably means they got a single dose of the vaccine, which is 93% protective, which is about what you'd expect. but overwhelmingly this these are unvaccinated kids. >> all right. doctor peter hotez, appreciate it. thank you. coming up, new details on the theft ring targeting high profile pro athletes. >> welcome back. >> have i got news for you. new saturday on cnn. >> when you look. back 100 years from now, we're going to say this is where everything changed. >> we are talking about the revolution. >> happening. >> keep your hands in the air and keep on rocking. >> team a

you know, why do we really know about the safety of mmr? well, the truth of the matter is, all of these vaccines have been studied for both safety and efficacy. if it's a brand new vaccine that we've never had before, but then it's studied against placebo for for new vaccines, replacing old vaccines, treating the same viruses, the vaccines are tested for safety and efficacy against the old vaccines. so every vaccine on the market in the united states has been tested for safety and efficacy. so his arrival in washington, he's not, you know, riding on some white horse. now, finally, to tell us whether the vaccines we've been giving our children for 60 years are safe and effective. we've had this data. he's just been someone who has refused to to read it and understand it and believe it. >> now we'll see what happens. let's see if this meeting ever gets put back on the books. for one thing, it's good to see you, jonathan. thank you, doctor john. >> all right. a former nfl player arrested for protesting the implementation of a plaque that spell

we have called the mmr vaccine. and this is why it's is so tragic. all of this is preventable.e of those kids had to be hospitalized. none of those kids will have to have would have to have measles complications. >> there are some reports that that some of the people have gotten sick, were vaccinated. >> yeah, a very small number, i think, of the 60 so far. um, almost all of them were either unvaccinated or unknown, not vaccinated or unknown vaccination status around four um, were vaccinated. and that probably means they got a single dose of the vaccine, which is 93% protective, which is about what you'd expect. but overwhelmingly this these are unvaccinated kids. >> all right. doctor peter hotez, appreciate it. thank you. coming up, new details on the theft ring targeting high profile pro athletes. >> well, let me back. >> up for a minute. >> it's so beautiful. >> wow. we. >> lockerbie sunday at nine on cnn. >> with allegra. >> i hope. >> you can. >> stop being sneezy without feeling sleepy. get 0% brain interference for fast, non drowsy allergy relief with allegra. it's a no

it's unfortunate, that wakefield had fraudulent research in england that put concerns about mmr and autismhas been totally, you know, rejected. i think one of the things that kennedy will do is he'll task nih to do a major scientific investigation. i suggested that he get a couple billion dollars into nih to have scientists that have hypothesis on the causes of autism and develop research programs so that we can look at and find the root causes of autism, whatever they are. because clearly something has happened to us to go up to less than one in 40 people now have autism. these things are effective in arguing people's, you know, comments in the past. i mean, kennedy took wakefield's research as being legitimate. unfortunately, it turns out to be illegitimate and obviously, he's dismissed that since. so i think part of it is just, the f.d.a. could show us the data. look at the current covid vaccines and i was part of developing them. have we seen an open and transparent review from the f.d.a. about what we know about the vaccine? we should see it. i'm in clinical practice, two and a half d

hard to debunk, even though there have been many, many studies that have disproven the link between mmralth. >> right. so i talk mainly about measles in the book. >> but. >> the book is about much more than just measles because because measles is so contagious. it's the first warning sign that we see when something has gone wrong with our public health systems. what i mean by that is you see measles outbreaks first, and those are often followed by outbreaks of other contagious diseases that are vaccine preventable. and so i would predict that we're going to see surges in whooping cough, pertussis and other vaccine preventable diseases and hopefully not things like polio. but i worry about that as well. and so i think the main point of the book is that all of the progress that we've made in child health and child mortality over the last century, and it's been a lot of progress is at risk and is fragile progress. >> he's had one of the most successful comic acting careers over the last half century, was the first to anchor weekend update on snl, and was the first to say those iconic words

-- on august 5, 2018, i'll quote the post, were these once healthy children the only two to receive mmr that day? if not, why were they the only ones to die? research needs to determine susceptibility so that no child is ever injured. del bigtree, kennedy's partner and former campaign manager, also released a video linking the tragedy to false claims about measles and telling his followers to, quote, share it with everyone you know. this is how we are changing the world. now, amidst public distrust and a paused vaccine program in samoa, the vaccination rates mruchlted. about ten -- plummeted. about ten months later, once the samoan government had finally stood up against the disinformation and resumed the vaccine program, kennedy visited the island to meet with the prime minister. later, recognizing the blowback that comes with how much went wrong when a conspiracy theory cost people their lives, kennedy has since denied his visit had anything to do with vaccines and said anything suggesting otherwise was, quote, an industry propaganda trope. in other words, totally false, industry prop

. >> many, many studies that have disproven the link between mmr and autism. >> so tell. >> us that thepecially. >> as it pertains. >> to what you call the uncertain future. >> of children's. >> health, right? >> so i talk mainly about. >> measles in the. >> book. >> but the book is about much more than just measles because because measles is so contagious, it's the first warning sign that we see. >> when something has. >> gone wrong with our public health systems. >> what i mean by. >> that is you see measles. outbreaks first, and. >> those are often followed by. >> outbreaks of other. >> contagious diseases. >> that are vaccine preventable. and so. i would predict that we're going to see surges. >> in whooping cough. pertussis and other. vaccine preventable. diseases and hopefully. >> not things like polio. but i worry about. that as well. and so i. >> think the. >> main point of the book is that all of the progress that we've. >> made in child health and. >> child. mortality over the last century, and it's been a lot of progress is at risk. >> and is. >> is fragile progress. >> and i

now the country will get an hhs chief who won't say if the mmr vaccine causes autism, despite mountainsion is easy. the test of a cabinet is whether it delivers results. our guest for the first one to muster out is rfk jr. so a lot of controversy over these cabinet picks. joining us now, democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. he's a member of the homeland security, armed services and judiciary committees. so we're watching what's happening on capitol hill today. which cabinet pick are you most concerned about, senator? >> i think. >> i'm most concerned. about tulsi gabbard, but it's really a pretty close second. >> in robert. kennedy jr. >> they both failed to recognize the facts. >> and robert. >> kennedy jr. poses a real threat to our public health. >> tulsi gabbard. >> to our. national security. we're voting today on a nominee for. fbi director kash patel, who wants to turn the fbi, apparently into a sycophantic goon squad rather than. the independent, impartial. >> objective law enforcement agency. >> it ought to be as an enemies list, which he calls government gangst