As Texas battles its worst measles outbreak in three decades, one West Texas physician has managed to make things even worse. Video evidence shows Dr. Ben Edwards—who runs an “integrative medicine” clinic in Seminole—treating patients while visibly covered in a measles rash. Instead of vaccines or standard supportive care, he’s handing out cod liver oil, vitamin A, steroids, and antibiotics that don’t even treat viruses. Because nothing says “cutting-edge medicine” like a treatment plan ripped from a 19th-century apothecary.
Edwards isn’t just defying common sense—he’s openly contradicting infection-control 101: don’t see patients when you’re contagious with one of the most infectious viruses known to humankind. But rather than being shunned, he’s getting backup from U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who called him an “extraordinary healer.” That’s right—the country’s top health official is applauding a guy treating sick kids while he himself is spewing measles into the air like a human fog machine.
Local doctors are horrified but scared to speak out, worried about online harassment from Edwards’ thousands of followers. Some have filed complaints with the Texas Medical Board, but since that process takes months, Edwards will likely keep running his measles speakeasy unchecked. Meanwhile, outbreaks have spread into Lubbock, with cases popping up in daycares—exactly the vulnerable populations Edwards claims to be “helping.”
We’re now living in a world where getting medical care from a guy visibly infected with measles is somehow up for debate. At this point, is Lubbock competing with Florida to see who can lose herd immunity the fastest?
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