Last week, I argued that RFK Jr. wrote his seemingly pro-vaccination op-ed under duress and that he still was an adherent to anti-vaccination propaganda, which in the case of measles argues that measles cases are harmless unless you have a vitamin A (or other nutritional) deficiency. Well, Alexander Tin brings the receipts with this transcript of RFK Jr. from March 4 (boldface mine):

But I’ve also spoken to frontline doctors, which is something that I think the CDC has not been good at doing in the past, to see what’s working.

There are two wonderful doctors there. A doctor called Richard Bartlett and another called Ed Benjamin.

Ed Benjamin is a family physician from Lubbock. Richard Barlett is an emergency room physician from Midland and Amarillo.

And they have treated most of the patients, actually, over 108 patients in the last 48 hours. And they’re getting very, very good results they report from budesonide, which is a steroid, it’s a 30 year old steroid and they clarithromycin and also cod liver oil, which has high concentrations of vitamin A and vitamin D. And they’re seeing what they describe as almost miraculous and instantaneous recovery from that.

We don’t make it at HHS because we haven’t done a clinical trial on those and we should have, but we haven’t, and we’re going to.

We need to look at those therapies and other therapies. We need to really do a good job of talking to the frontline doctors and see what is working on the ground, because those therapeutics have really been ignored by the agency for a long, long time.

…You pointed out there is malnutrition in west Texas, in Gaines county, and in the Mennonite community. The doctors that I’m talking to on the ground, the leaders, the community are reporting that the people who are getting sick are people who are, and the little girl who died, were malnutrition may have been an issue in her death.

So there’s a lot of poverty in that area, the food is kind of a food desert. The best thing that Americans can do is to keep themselves healthy.

It is very, very difficult for measles to kill a healthy person. So if you’re healthy, well nourished, in fact, the– measles at one point was killing about 10,000 people a year in our country at the time, but those deaths were eliminated through nutrition and sanitation.

If avian influenza, or some other pathogen, jumps to people and can spread easily, we’re so fucked. RETVRN to measles, mumps, and rubella, I guess.