Hawaii Gov. Josh Green: States Must Prepare Now for Potentially ‘Devastating’ Infectious Diseases, Health Funding Cuts

[Walt]

No one is coming to help us. The people who were supposed to help us through a pandemic are being fired. Vaccination rates will not rise by luck. We are in real trouble.

@Damocles

 

[anonymoose]

Wrong again

No he’s not.
Yes he is.
Not .
Wanna bet?

 

[volsrock1]

At a U.S. News health forum, the physician-governor said that travel restrictions could be needed if measles or bird flu outbreaks ‘explode.’

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2025-02-21/hawaii-gov-josh-green-states-must-prepare-now-for-potentially-devastating-infectious-diseases-health-funding-cuts

WASHINGTON _ If infectious disease outbreaks such as measles or bird flu explode into larger-scale emergencies, Hawaii could begin screening visitors to the state, as it did during the COVID pandemic, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said in a wide-ranging interview on the margin of the National Governors Association meeting.
“From a practical standpoint, the best we could do would be to assess outbreaks analytically and then, yes, do screenings or make sure that people were healthy” to travel, Green said.
Green, the only governor who is also a physician, said if things take a turn for the worse with bird flu, for instance, “we are already preparing what is right now a very private strategy to deal with a large outbreak should it happen nationally,” he said. “Can we focus on everything and everyone’s vaccination status? I don’t think that’s possible. So we are preparing extra support.”
During the heights of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hawaii “closed completely,” Green said, to manage the spread of disease because of concerns about shortages of health care workers and medical supplies on its islands. “We learned a lot of lessons from COVID about how to be prepared in advance,” Green said Thursday at a health care event hosted by U.S. News & World Report.
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According to the Texas Department of State Health Services, 90 cases of measles have been identified in Texas since late January. Several cases have also been reported in New Mexico.
Green helped battle a measles outbreak on the island of Samoa in 2019 when he was serving as lieutenant governor. “Many Samoans were afraid to vaccinate their children,” Green wrote in a January op-ed for The New York Times, after activists from other countries, including newly confirmed Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., “claimed vaccines were dangerous.” Green urged Congress in public testimony not to confirm Kennedy to lead HHS. Earlier this week, Kennedy pledged to examine the childhood vaccine schedule that prevents measles, polio and other dangerous diseases.
“I’m concerned that there’s already outbreaks of measles that are going to explode across our country,” Green said. “I saw the impact of misinformation on vaccinations, and if that amps up, we are going to face a lot of extra illness, and we will lose children.”
Green, the co-chair of the National Governors Association public health and disaster response task force, is joining other governors in Washington for the annual winter gathering of the NGA this week, which includes a meeting with President Donald Trump on Friday and a dinner at the White House on Saturday.
During COVID, Green said Hawaii used real-time data and analytics to deploy additional masks, clinicians and hospital beds, for instance, across different parts of the state, which is home to about 1.4 million people.

Measles Outbreak Associated with a Migrant Shelter — Chicago, Illinois, February–May 2024​

2 Measles Cases Reported in New York City Migrant Shelter​

Although measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, measles cases and outbreaks continue to occur in the United States due to unvaccinated international travelers.MIGRANTS!!!!!

Global Measles Outbreaks

Top 10 countries with measles outbreaks worldwide.

www.cdc.gov

Venezuela also saw substantial outbreaks of measles and diphtheria owing to low immunisation coverage. According to PAHO, an outbreak of measles in Venezuela led to 7054 cases and 84 deaths between July, 2017, and July, 2019



So lets bring in thousands of people from Venezuela!

 

[volsrock1]

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Far Fewer in U.S. Regard Childhood Vaccinations as Important​

Decline occurs among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents

by Jeffrey M. Jones

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Fewer Americans today consider childhood vaccines important, with 40% saying it is extremely important for parents to have their children vaccinated, down from 58% in 2019 and 64% in 2001. There has been a similar decline in the combined “extremely” and “very important” percentage, which was 94% in 2001 but sits at 69% today.

Far Fewer in U.S. Regard Childhood Vaccinations as Important

Americans are now less likely to consider childhood vaccines as extremely important, with Republicans accounting for the drop.

news.gallup.com

Robert DeNiro a huge Lib​

In 2017, Robert De Niro joined forced with RFK Jr. to host a press conference about vaccine safety.

The event highlighted common uncredited claims such as the notion that vaccines cause autism and contain a large source of mercury.

Every Celebrity to Speak Out Against Vaccines

"Black Panther" star Letitia Wright has made headlines for posting an anti-vaccination video on Twitter. She's not the first celebrity to speak out against vaccines.

www.newsweek.com

In 2017, Robert participated in an anti-vax panel for the World Mercury Project, now called the Children's Health Defense. After Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a speech about vaccines being unsafe for some children, the actor said, "I thought what Bobby said was great. It was eloquent. I couldn’t have said it better myself. I agree with him 100%."​