Measles is back! DOGEbags run wild (Do Not Resuscitate #384)

How are the intermediaries making their trillions this week? Measles is making a comeback, and the official response is. . . Um, is there one? The Muskrats are busy with their rolling takeover of the country's finances, and if there's stuff in our food that's killing us, well, that's also too bad because we're decapitating the EPA. Meanwhile, the endless search continues for the magic tweak to our healthcare system, a.k.a. pounding out dents on a car that has no wheels.

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Here are the links to all the articles mentioned this week: 

Mary Kekatos, “Measles cases reported in New Jersey, Kentucky amid ongoing outbreak in Texas,” ABC News, Feb 27, 2025 https://bit.ly/4h6FcBz

Neha Mukherjee, “RFK Jr. said measles outbreaks are ‘not unusual’ in the US. Doctors say he’s wrong,” CNN, Feb 27, 2025 https://bit.ly/41BQDN4

Andrew Joseph, “On measles outbreak, the Trump administration’s messaging strikes some as off-key,” STAT, Feb 27, 2025 https://bit.ly/41pchml

Eleanor Klibanoff, “Texas leaders quiet amid the biggest measles outbreak in decades,” Texas Tribune, Feb 28, 2025 https://bit.ly/3DiSdtV

Adrienne Matei, “Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds: ‘I really made a mistake,’” The Guardian, Feb 27, 2025 https://bit.ly/4inuebE

Clare Ansberry, “We don’t trust doctors like we used to,” Wall Street Journal, Feb 23, 2025 https://bit.ly/4h5XvH1

Zeynep Tufekci, “The Texas measles outbreak is even scarier than it looks,” New York Times, Feb 28, 2025 https://bit.ly/4klfXhH

Jason Gale, “As measles cases surge in Texas, WHO’s global control program risks collapse,” Bloomberg, Feb 26, 2025 https://bit.ly/4bourt8

Rebecca Falconer, “HPV vaccine has huge impact on cervical cancer prevention, CDC study suggests,” Axios, Feb 28, 2025 https://bit.ly/41gi5hO

Pamela Ferdinand, “Agricultural pesticide exposure linked to childhood cancers, study says,” U.S. Right To Know, Feb 16, 2025 https://bit.ly/4bmEJKj

Natasha Gilbert, “As EPA considers cancer links to nitrates in drinking water, industry downplays the risks,” U.S. Right To Know/Sierra, Jan 30, 2025 https://bit.ly/4incPjp

Yuki Noguchi, “Iowa has high cancer rates. Trump’s cuts to CDC and NIH are already hitting the state,” NPR, Feb 28, 2025 https://bit.ly/4h7eIQp

Sarah Ladd, “Kentucky legislature moves to implement Make America Healthy Again,” Kentucky Lantern, Feb 25, 2025 https://bit.ly/3DhnjC2

Richard K. Leuchter, “An open letter to RFK Jr: Stop the spread of private equity in healthcare,” MedPage Today, Feb 19, 2025 https://bit.ly/4kqvlsY

Joyce Frieden, “Health prices are getting more transparent, but it’s still not enough,” MedPage Today, Nov 20, 2025 https://bit.ly/41EPTqk

Julia Shapero, “Arizona advances bill to keep AI from rejecting medical claims,” The Hill, Feb 21, 2025 https://bit.ly/4h9sHFj

Brian Witte & Rodrique Ngowi, “Fired cybersecurity chief for Veterans Affairs site warns that health and financial data is at risk,” Associated Press, Feb 25, 2025 https://bit.ly/3XpikGp

Juan Cole, “Palestinian life expectancy in Gaza cut from 75.5 to 40.6 years by Israeli total war,” Informed Comment, Feb 22, 2025 https://www.juancole.com/2025/02/palestinian-expectancy-israeli.html

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