In the face of a major measles outbreak, HHS secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. has seemingly done a 180. Fellow anti-vaccine ...

Indeed, when RFK Jr. visited Samoa in 2018, which suffered a measles epidemic that caused 5,600 cases and 83 deaths, mostly in children less than 4, he refused to admit that the deaths were caused by ...

In 2019, Children’s Health Defense — then under Kennedy’s stewardship — fomented anti-measles vaccine sentiment in Samoa ahead of an outbreak that killed 83 people. Public panic over the ...

that he helped cause a measles outbreak in Samoa and that he wanted to cause the death of Black people. It says Vickrey also republished falsehoods in a 2020 blog post he wrote for the progressive ...

A 2019 measles outbreak that killed 83 people in Samoa around the time Kennedy visited the country was a key sticking point in the official’s confirmation hearing. Kennedy told the Senate his ...

MORE: RFK Jr. has questioned rising autism rates ... that the deaths of 83 people – mostly young children – in Samoa in 2019 were caused by measles, despite widespread evidence that the ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's former opponent in the 2024 election, was officially sworn in as Secretary of ...