Anti-Vaxxers Aghast as RFK Jr. Admits That Vaccines Are Pretty Fantastic

Image by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Developments Twenty-five years after it was declared eliminated from the US thanks to a nationwide and highly effective vaccination program, a measles outbreak in Texas has health experts raising the alarm bells. As of Monday, there have been 146 confirmed cases in the state, including one death of a school-aged child, in the "first measles-related fatality in the United States in over a decade," according to a statement by Robert Kennedy Jr., the Trump adminsitration's secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It's a particularly bizarre situation, given Kennedy's staunch anti-vaccine track record. He's spent many years engaging in fearmongering campaigns surrounding vaccines, including ones targeting immunizations against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) specifically, as Mother Jones reports. After visiting Samoa in 2019, where he discussed the topic of vaccines and met with anti-vaccine activists, a massive meas ... Read full article.