The Doomscroll News Report
This week, Hanna and Amanda discuss the state of vaccines in the United States, especially the MMR (Measels, Mumps and Rubella) vaccine and current Health and Human Services secretary Robert F Kennedy's flip-flopping on them. Then we discussing the new Israel-Iran conflict and where we think it's headed.
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On RFK jr and Vaccines in the U.S.: 1. Six babies with unvaccinated mothers born with measles in Canada (Leyland Cecco, The Guardian), 2.How RFK Jr. is quickly changing U.S. health agencies (Julie Tsirkin and Olympia Sonnier, NBC News), 3. RFK Jr tells Congress ‘people shouldn’t take medical advice from me’ (Jessica Glanza, the Guardian)
On the Israel-Iran conflict: 1. Iranian state broadcaster hit as Iran urges Trump to make Israel halt war (Alexander Cornwell and Parisa Hafezi, Reuters), 2. In Iran, grief for civilian casualties but little pity for commanders (Baran Abbasi, BBC Persian), 3. Israel says Iran was racing towards a nuclear weapon. US intel says it was years away ( Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen, CNN)