Hi, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. Do you know the symptoms of the measles?

According to the CDC, it takes 7 to 14 days for any symptoms to show, but then this happens.

First, there is a fever, and that could spike to more than 104 degrees,

a cough, usually, runny nose, red, watery eyes. Then people with measles can expect tiny

white spots inside the mouth two to three days after the initial symptoms begin. And then

what's called the measles rash. It begins

with flat red spots on your face at the hairline that spread down the neck, the chest to your

trunk. And when you have measles, those spots can become joined together as they spread from

your head all over your body. When that rash appears, your fever can spike to much higher than 104 degrees.

We share this information again from the CDC as a public service because our nation's public

health agencies and their employees are the latest target of Donald Trump's purge of the federal

workforce. And the timing couldn't be more potentially catastrophic.

There is a measles outbreak right now,

spreading unchecked in communities in our country with low vaccination rates.

The person in charge of handling this measles outbreak,

as well as the bird flu and anything else that wallops,

our nation's citizens and health system is right now Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He is a person known the world over,

not just for his famous last name, but as an active anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist.

He was called a predator by an equally famous member of his own family.

And breaking over the weekend, mass firings in the thousands all across the Department of Health and Human Services.

The Washington Post is reporting that some employees are calling it a, quote, Valentine's Day massacre from that reporting, quote, at the FDA, hundreds of staffers received termination notices. Those terminated in the food program were working on nutrition, infant formula,

and food safety response, as well as 10 staff members who were charged with reviewing

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