Joshua Weitz, "Asymptomatic: The Silent Spread of COVID-19 and the Future of Pandemics"

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Measles is briefly mentioned in this discussion of pandemics and of the effects of the SARS-CoV-2-caused pandemic. RFK, Jr.'s ineffectually weak mouthings of a need to be vaccinated against measles as the way to put a halt to the current measles outbreak are noted as is the Trump Administration's willingness to cancel grants that relate to vaccine hesitancy.

Again, RFK, Jr.'s performance given the current state of the spread of measles and his utter lack of a competent effort to make sure that everyone who can be vaccinated against measles is actually vaccinated is a betrayal of his role as head of HHS and of public health in the US.

This discussion and book are important for their discussion of how science should be communicated and of how vigilance with respect to pathogens still needs to be maintained ( even as RFK, Jr. wants to give infectious diseases "a break" ) . It is also noted that the avian flu has a significant level of infection in animals.