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The Truth About RFK Jr. and the Samoan Measles Outbreak

by David Marks
17 December 2024 5:30 PM

When the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Health and Human Services Secretary comes before the Senate, the spectre of the Samoan measles outbreak of 2019 will dramatically be invoked to challenge him. Kennedy’s critics have repeatedly relied on this topic, citing stories that claim he was responsible for an epidemic in 2019 that caused at least 83 children to die due to vaccine hesitancy. In recent articles, reporters quote previous news coverage relying on unsubstantiated and minimal data to justify their analysis.

These stories repeat dubious assertions, fail to discuss any pathological analysis, and dismiss Kennedy’s considered support of healthcare in Samoa. He had assisted the Samoan Government in developing a system for health officials to assess the efficacy and safety of medical interventions or drugs, including vaccines.

In November 2019, while the deaths of Samoan children were rapidly increasing, Kennedy wrote a comprehensive letter to the Samoan Prime Minister, presenting some possible causes of the unprecedented, virulent outbreak of measles. His concerns about the epidemic in Samoa highlight striking anomalies that were apparent to a few investigators at the time, although they remain unexplained.

The most convenient and generally accepted explanations of the outbreak claim the epidemic was the result of vaccine hesitancy, causing the population to be under-vaccinated. Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccination rates were reportedly low due to the deaths of two infants given improperly formulated injections in Samoa a year earlier.

Any considered analysis of the accessible facts soundly contradicts the conjecture that the high death count was related to low vaccination rates. News coverage continues to rely on a UNICEF report estimating the vaccination rate of one year-olds was as low as 31% as the epidemic started. However, the Samoan Government Health Ministry reported (p. 9) in June 2019 — three months before the measles outbreak began — that 80% of 12 month-old babies had received the MMR vaccine.

In past measles epidemics, dying children were often malnourished or immunocompromised. No deaths from measles have occurred in the U.S. in the last five years. From October through December of 2019, 1.5% of Samoan children with the disease died — over one in 100 — at a minimum, 10-fold more deaths than any previous outbreak in recent years. No accounting for this overt statistical deviance has been published.

Despite the presumptions of those who attack Kennedy, there was never any investigation into any aspect of this baffling tragedy. Edwin Tamasese, a health advocate who questioned Samoan Government policies during the outbreak, gave Kennedy some insight into what was happening.

Tamasese was concerned about the number of sick and dying Samoan children and began to assist families whose children were severely ill. He and his colleagues encountered conditions that contradicted the Government’s narrative.

While the press condemned him as an anti-vaxxer, Tamasese’s interventions and observations are revelatory. In an interview after the outbreak subsided, he said:

We were very careful to take statistics when we were going in to try to identify trends. When we assessed our numbers, 98% of those who were getting ill had been vaccinated consistently six to seven days prior to illness. The excuse was that the vaccine did not have time to become effective. However, according to an immunologist on the team, the six to seven-day period was also the length of time it would take an under-attenuated vaccine to make the recipient sick.

The MMR vaccine is a live, attenuated vaccine that contains weakened live strains of measles, mumps, and rubella (German measles).

Doctors in hospitals also reported that the very ill and dying children did not have symptoms consistent with normal cases of measles. When the outbreak began, blood from the first 39 cases had been sent to Australia; only seven samples were positive for measles.

The Government stopped testing to confirm the cause of these deaths in early November 2019. Without scientific confirmation, illness and mortality were attributed to low immunisation rates. Samoan health authorities continued to claim that the only remedy for the deadly epidemic was a drive to increase vaccination; however, the campaign appeared to increase the number of measles cases.

Neighbouring Pacific island countries, Tonga and Fiji, which had concurrent outbreaks of the virus — and had a different source of the measles vaccine — did not suffer the same dramatic mortality rates. This should have raised concerns, yet there hasn’t been an inquiry into why the Samoan Government switched vaccine sourcing from India to Belgium midway through the crisis.

A renewed effort to vaccinate with this alternate supply began in the first week of December 2019; it was hailed as the reason the outbreak subsided. Measles vaccines take at least 10 days before creating an immune response. There has been no explanation for the data confirming that the onset of cases dropped dramatically two weeks before this vaccination drive could have had any effect.

The Government response was not driven by factual analysis; the effort focused on promoting the vaccine and silencing those questioning authority.

With Samoan officials and the press deriding his work and views, Tamasese was arrested and charged with incitement of a Government order and treating children without a licence. Although this was deemed appropriate justice by the international news media as they echoed the Government’s praise of the vaccine, reporters again failed to present the questions raised by the outbreak.

The prosecution’s primary witness against Tamasese was a nurse whose child had measles. He had suggested that administering vitamins A and C could be helpful — and standard medical treatment for measles patients. She had taken his advice and admitted that her child recovered soon afterward.

Tamasese reported that when the nurse left the courtroom, the judge, in throwing out the case, said: “That witness may as well have represented the accused.” There was relative silence from the news media when all charges against him were dismissed.

While worldwide attention on Samoa ignored dramatic inconsistencies, Kennedy was one of the few people who asked detailed and important questions. His views were marginalised; it was easier and politically correct to blame the tragedy on low rates of vaccination.

The relatively few details known about the Samoan measles outbreak indicate that forces intent on presenting vaccines as an infallible, unquestionable remedy will not tolerate scrutiny or admit failures. This continuing devious tactic is applied internationally and is eagerly supported by most governments and the press.

Analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic has only recently vindicated those who were scorned for questioning the response. The parallels to the unfolding of the epidemic in Samoa are not obscure, and support Kennedy’s contention that vaccine development, manufacturing and application need much more effective evaluation and monitoring to prevent complications and death.

When the U.S. Government assures the public that any vaccine or medication is safe and effective, this must come from an independent, thorough and transparent process, rather than relying only on the words and actions of those with vested interests.

The current criticism of Kennedy is an endeavour to make him look dangerously ignorant and irresponsible to sway members of the Senate. Much to the chagrin of those who vilify him, his efforts to understand and assist in the Samoan measles outbreak exemplify his thoughtfulness and capabilities.

RFK, Jr. is at the forefront of healthcare oversight; his confirmation as HHS Secretary will ensure that Americans benefit from his experience and knowledge.

David Marks is a veteran investigative reporter and documentary producer. He has made films for PBS Frontline and the BBC, including Nazi Gold, which challenged the assumption of Switzerland’s neutrality in WWII. This article was first published in Brownstone Journal.

Tags: Donald TrumpMeaslesMedia BiasMisinformationSamoaVaccination

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Arum
Arum
1 year ago

They don’t seem to have included ‘The Government’ as a risk

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago
Reply to  Arum

Maybe because the probably of harm from the government is 100%, so no risk analysis required. It’s a dead cert.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
1 year ago

Does it say how we are countering this threat, as ‘piss our pants and run around like headless chickens doing stupid stuff’ turned out not to be as effective as we hoped…

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

And it wasnt even a threat. Everyone ran around scared of ghosts.

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Epi
Epi
1 year ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

😂😂😂😂

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

As usual the Davos Deviants are telling us what they have in the pipeline.

My reckoning is that Billy’s new release will be either 2024 or 2025 and after the new IHR have been dotted and signed, but not before. All the other threats are just ‘maybe’s’ depending on the reaction to the next Scamdemic. If we tell them to F. O. and ignore it they will ramp the pressure with something else.

Nothing new here really.

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FerdIII
FerdIII
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Agree with you. 1918, 1950s (polio etc), 1976, 2001, 2020….2025-27 is most likely. Married to GlobaloneyBoiling and Melting. Permafrost ‘melt’ releases the scary mammoth virus which flies a few million miles and infects everyone. Pangolins, Bats, Science and all that. Happily Kill Gates and friends will have the magic mRNA elixir to hand…

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David101
David101
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

It won’t necessarily be a pandemic next, or anything we’ve become familiar with… This new “Risk Assessment” document will serve as a convenient toolkit that any state, corporation, supra-national body or billionaire, or an axis combining all of these seeking total control, can pick and choose from to keep the public feeling “sufficiently threatened” and hence subservient to their globalist goals. It appears they’ve done themselves a nice little handbook of over 90 scare tactics to pull out of the bag, depending on the latest fashion!
Doesn’t matter whether it’s a “pandemic” a threat from Russia, climate nonsense or Martian invasion – it only matters the level of fear it induces.

Last edited 1 year ago by David101
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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
1 year ago
Reply to  David101

It will probably be an Earthquake in LA. Now just stop that!

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
1 year ago

Of course Russian disruption had to be on the list. The Russians haven’t disrupted our energy supplies, we did it to ourselves helped out by our partner in crime USA through sanctions and a bit if help blowing up a pipeline.
Russia’s best weapon against UK is our irrational, incompetent governing classes of all stripes who now use propaganda at least as frequently as Russia did in the cold war, and whose obsession with saving the world from the evils of British co2 have managed to ship many of the sources of it overseas.
Breaking news, it was an undersea Pacific volcano last year that caused a 10% rise in atmospheric H2O vapour (a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon (sic)) which caused a minor rise in temperature.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

”The register said a fresh pandemic may be worse than Covid and could affect half of the population, with an estimated 1.34 million people needing hospital treatment and up to potential 840,000 deaths.”

Yes and I’m sure 400 years ago that would indeed be a possibility but fortunately today we have specific things called *medicines* and a healthy ( and growing ) distrust of governments, ergo, shove your flipping fear porn PsyOp up your backsides! Honestly, this garbage has ”Neil Ferguson” written all over it.
Hello 77th Hamster Penis Regiment <wavey hand morphing to flip the bird!> I know you’ll be watching to see how this crap is being received by the non-brainwashed segment of the population..You think we’re gonna fall for this BS you can jog on, munters!

<Mogwai will begin to have mysterious technical issues once more> 😉

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

this garbage has ”Neil Ferguson” written all over it.

If only it was possible to upvote you a thousand times! What a bonus hole he is.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  soundofreason

😆 Well he sure as hell belongs under the heading of ‘Turds that will not be flushed’.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Mogs – you’re a 🌟 star.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Flatterer 🙃

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

😀😀😀

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smallfuzzballs
smallfuzzballs
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

When did any ‘medicine work ? More side effects more medicine, permanent damage, no I’ll think I’ll dodge the si called ‘vaccines’ avs vouch for my 100,000 year old immune system thanks

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JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

An alternative view could be that Covid-19 wasn’t actually as bad as we feared, until we assisted it in various ways. Need to plan ahead more to do a proper job.

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johnboy12
johnboy12
1 year ago

Translation – “One in Four Chance of us Pulling Another Pandemic Scam in Next Five Years, According to New Government Analysis”

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago

This is how the world becomes a miserable, cheerless place to live in.

A technocrat draws up a “risk analysis” and puts everything he can think of in it, so that no one can ever accuse him of having been careless.

Then the toxic document is handed to policy makers who are told they can ignore it at their own peril. They of course want to cover their arses too, so they act on it.

And so we shuffle towards a dystopian world in which we live assuming the worst, preparing for catastrophe and obsessively weeding out every shred risk until our lives are so miserable we might as well top ourselves.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

Brand new study looking at the cardiovascular outcomes of adolescents who were diagnosed with Covid vax-induced myocarditis, a 1 year follow-up;

”To our knowledge, this is the longest follow-up study to date with comprehensive cardiac evaluation and imaging of adolescent patients diagnosed with COVID-19 vaccine–associated myocarditis. Global systolic ventricular function appears to be preserved. However, impairment of LV and RV myocardial deformation and persistence of LGE in a significant subset of patients with up to 1 year of follow-up was observed. Growing evidence suggests worse prognosis in the presence of altered myocardial deformation and LGE in patients with myocarditis. 

A short-term study reported abnormal CMR-derived LV longitudinal strain and LGE in 70% to 75% of adolescent patients with COVID-19 vaccine–associated myocarditis followed up for 3 to 8 months. Similar CMR findings were found in young adults studied at 3 to 6 months after the initial diagnosis. The implications of impaired systolic and diastolic myocardial deformation and LGE in our patient subset remain unclear. Nonetheless, given that impaired myocardial deformation and LGE are indicators of subclinical myocardial dysfunction and fibrosis, there exists a potential long-term effect on exercise capacity and cardiac functional reserve during stress.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10373639/

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JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago

Jobs for the boys. Keeps the service busy, but could they just hand it over to the likes of Ladbrokes, Paddy Power etc?

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

How prescient these criminals who profited from the scamdemic were. No wonder they’re all hinting at and gleefully rubbing their hands together at the prospect of the next one. Good 5min video;

https://twitter.com/TexasLindsay_/status/1685736544814972928

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Jon Smith
Jon Smith
1 year ago

2025

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

Hospitals across 5 US states targeted in a cyber attack today. I read about 5 Italian banks being hacked the other day too. Now who’s warned us about these future cyber attacks in the recent past….?

”MANCHESTER, Conn. – A cyberattack disrupted hospital computer systems in several states, forcing some emergency rooms to close and ambulances to be diverted, and many primary care services remained closed Friday as security experts worked to determine the extent of the problem and resolve it.
The “data security incident” began Thursday at facilities operated by Prospect Medical Holdings, which is based in California and has hospitals and clinics there and in Texas, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania.”

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/08/04/cyberattacks-prospect-medical-hospitals-health-facilities/70529098007/

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

You know how the Russians used to get the blame for everything? Now my go-to scapegoat is Klaus. Entirely justified, I listen to what people are telling us. Arrogant gits. He does fit the part though, you must admit… 😉

https://twitter.com/liz_churchill10/status/1687501531783041024

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Mogs – Davos Deviants as I usually refer.

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Brett_McS
Brett_McS
1 year ago

100% chance. It’s already been planned.

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

According to Bill Gates, there’s 100% chance of another pandemic very shortly after the WHO’s new Pandemic Treaty has been implemented.

He even knows that it will target young people.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
1 year ago

Biggest risks facing the country

Net Zero
WHO Pandemic Treaty
PLandemics
European Union
Involvement in foreign wars the have nothing to do with us
Stupid pointless politicians,

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Covid-1984
Covid-1984
1 year ago

You mean ” seasonal flu” or the untreated diseases casually allowed in across the channel 🤔 I don’t think politicians have noticed yet, that nobody takes any notice of them anymore.

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smallfuzzballs
smallfuzzballs
1 year ago

And pray tell how are they predicting that unless it is man made? Or staged even? Our government needs dissolving they serve no purpose anymore other than to make us poor and fearful

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The old bat
The old bat
1 year ago

I wouldn’t say the failure of the UK electricity supply system was a remote chance. All we need is another winter, or even a month or so, similar to that of 1963 and I think any small reserve built into the system will quickly be used up, and rolling power cuts would become commonplace. We haven’t done, but I know quite a few people now who have bought generators for just such an eventuality. (Although we live in an area where power cuts are common – any severe weather and the lights go out.)
I’m surprised a ‘Carrington’ type event isnt mentioned, which would take out most of the world’s electronics.
I wonder what’s planned for the next scamdemic? I mean, if you re-marketed norovirus as a potentially deadly illness, milions of people would happily believe it.

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
1 year ago
Reply to  The old bat

What’s planned next? Just take a look at the jabs being enabled approved by the FDA & MHRA. My money’s on RSV or Dengue, or whatever else Billy can get into his genetically modified mozzies and tics.

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Peter W
Peter W
1 year ago

No 1 on the list:
Self-destruction of society and infrastructure by pursuing Net Zero.

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David101
David101
1 year ago

I wonder whether anywhere in this report is included the greatest threats to our ways of life in the history of humankind… These include:

The Pandemic Treaty and the amendments to the International Health Regulations.

Net Zero

Central Bank Digital Currencies

The Ministry of Truth

Surveillance, data capture and digital IDs

Censorship of inconvenient truths.

… Oh sorry, I forgot, all these things were just designed to protect us, of course!

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

It’s well accepted that (serious pandemics)
Occur once a century.. then two come along in 4-5 years, really!…it’s almost as if they are willing one into existence 🤔(or determined to cause one!)

Last edited 1 year ago by Dinger64
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David101
David101
1 year ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Not even cause one – just declare one! Take you pick out of thousands of new pathogens and strains of pathogens emerging every single day, and call it a pandemic. Once you’ve given it that name, you can pull all manner of stunts.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

The most chronic threat to the western world are our own shyte governments! which ever one we have forced upon us through lack of real alternatives

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
1 year ago

Everyone dies sometime, why the fuss? It is all part of the blame game and more cash!

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