Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been confirmed as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Do not be surprised when (if)
Dr. Michael Osterholm, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss the health risks that are facing this nations as a result of a surge in measles cases,
MSNBC medical contributor Dr. Vin Gupta called out newly installed Health and Human Services SecretaryRobert F. Kennedy Jr on Thursday morning after the Donald Trump appointee tried to downplay the alarming growth of measles cases that has now resulted in children dying.
The death was a “school-aged child who was not vaccinated” and had been hospitalized last week, Texas officials said Wednesday.
An unvaccinated child has become the first death in a measles outbreak taking hold in west Texas – but Health and Human Services Services Robert Kennedy Jr. downplayed the case, saying measles cases were “not unusual.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sits atop the very health system he spent years attacking, and now he faces his first big challenge: a deadly measles outbreak in West Texas.
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Medpage Today on MSNRFK Jr. Misstated Key Facts About Deadly Measles OutbreakHHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier this week dismissed the measles outbreak in West Texas that killed an unvaccinated child as "not unusual" and appeared to misstate a number of key facts.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., head of the Department of Health and Human Services, downplayed the seriousness of an ongoing measles outbreak in Texas, falsely claiming that people had been hospitalized “mainly for quarantine” and misleadingly stating that the situation is “not unusual.
I recognize the serious impact of this outbreak on families, children, and healthcare workers,” Kennedy wrote on X Friday night.
The health secretary has long pushed misinformation about vaccines and played down an outbreak in Texas that has led to the death of a child.
“We have measles outbreaks every year,” he added. Mr. Kennedy has also said in the past that immunizations against measles and some other infectious diseases are unnecessary and risky.
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