- Via Cato At Liberty: Trump’s Trade Wars Harm Farmers and Taxpayers.
- Via CNBC: Weekly jobless claims surge to 241,000, more than expected, in latest sign of economic trouble.
- Via Axios: Amazon denies tariff pricing plan after White House calls it “hostile and political”. This is pure capitulation. If they can list sales taxes, why not tariffs? Further, why should the Trump administration care, since I have been told that the foreign countries pay the tariffs? Maybe some Trump whisperer can explain it to me.
- Via The Hill: Trump fires Doug Emhoff, Biden appointees from Holocaust museum board.
- Via The Hill: Gabbard won’t rule out 2028 presidential run. Whew! This was keeping me up at night!!
- Via the NYT: Kennedy Orders Search for New Measles Treatments Instead of Urging Vaccination.
With the United States facing its largest single measles outbreak in 25 years, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for the disease, including vitamins, according to an H.H.S. spokesman.
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Critics have said Mr. Kennedy has focused too much on untested treatments — such as cod liver oil supplements — and offered only muted support for the measles vaccine, which studies show is 97 percent effective in preventing infection.
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Scientists have already thoroughly studied various vitamins and medications as potential treatments for measles, said Michael Osterholm an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota.
Decades of research have turned up no miracle treatment for the measles virus, which can cause pneumonia, making it difficult for patients to get oxygen into their lungs, and brain swelling, which can cause blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities.
“It’s not that there’s been a lack of studies,” he said.
There is a weird hubris that allows a person to assert that medical science needs to be prodded to study some simplistic cure for diseases. Vitamins?! Why didn’t we think of that?!!!!
- Meanwhile, via The Guardian: World may be ‘post-herd immunity’ to measles, top US scientist says. That sounds bad.
Measles vaccination is believed to have saved more than 93 million lives worldwide between 1974 and 2024 and reduced overall childhood mortality.
But just imagine if they had just taken cod liver oil!
