by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D., Childrens Health Defense:
Lyla was admitted to the emergency room of Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock on Feb. 28 due to breathing difficulty. Two days earlier at the same hospital, a 6-year-old girl who also had pneumonia following a measles infection died. The deceased child did not receive any breathing treatment before her death.
A 4-year-old West Texas girl who developed secondary pneumonia following a measles infection spent over four days in a hospital before she was given budesonide, a steroid used to relieve inflammation affecting the airways.
Budesonide is one of the treatments Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promoted during the Texas measles outbreak, according to The Hill.