Politico March 6, 2025
The health secretary’s muted response to the first major disease outbreak on his watch worries even some allies.
As a deadly measles outbreak spread across Texas, the nation’s top health official took to Instagram on Sunday to blast out a message to his nearly 5 million followers.
“Afternoon mountaineering above Coachella Valley,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote in a caption alongside photos of himself hiking in California.
The post quickly ricocheted around the department, dismaying officials working overtime to track and contain the highly contagious disease, according to two people close to the response effort granted anonymity to describe a sensitive situation. Measles had infected more than 140 people in west Texas in a matter...
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