I’m a pediatrician in Texas. Things are dire and we need your support – not your condescension | Seema Jilani
Nothing I have done is more impactful than a day’s work in this battleground in the south, the graveyard of politicians’ abandoned promises
The tentacles of disinformation have already claimed their first young victim. This week, an unvaccinated child in Texas died of measles – an entirely preventable disease. Right now, the state is seeing its largest measles outbreak in more than 30 years. Yet at a White House briefing, Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of health and human services, falsely noted “it is not unusual”, and did not offer any plans for containment.
I am a pediatrician in Texas, and I can assure you the situation is so abnormal that most younger physicians have never seen a case of measles, thanks to successful vaccination campaigns.
Seema Jilani is a pediatric physician based in Texas, a first-generation American, and a member of the Council of Foreign Relations
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