AXIOS March 2, 2025
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advocated for the MMR vaccine on Sunday in response to a growing measles outbreak in Texas.
Why it matters: Kennedy has a long record of sowing skepticism about vaccines and last week appeared to downplay the situation in Texas when he described such outbreaks as “not unusual.”
- He has previously repeated debunked claims about vaccines and provided elusive answers to senators on his stance on vaccinations ahead of being confirmed.
Driving the news: In a Fox News op-ed that had the subheading “MMR vaccine is crucial to avoiding potentially deadly disease,” Kennedy wrote that before the introduction of the MMR vaccine in the 1960s, “virtually every child in the...
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