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RFK Jr.’s “just a rash” disease filled Texas hospital beds

The disease did not get nicer while we were ignoring it.

Jason Weisberger
May 29, 2026
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The anti-vaccine crowd spent years trying to rebrand measles as a harmless childhood inconvenience. Texas just supplied the hospital records.

In a study published yesterday in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, state and federal researchers provided a detailed postmortem of last year’s massive multi-state measles outbreak that mushroomed o…

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