Politico March 30, 2025
Gregory Svirnovskiy

Ashish Jha blames Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Former White House Covid-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha on Sunday laid the blame for an ongoing measles outbreak currently centered on West Texas squarely at the feet of new HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“This is all wholly preventable,” Jha told Martha Raddatz on ABC’s “This Week.” “We’ve already had two people die. I’m worried we’re going to see more children get very, very sick and die. We should not be at this point in our country, and yet here we are because of bad information being spread by Secretary Kennedy and others.”

Kennedy has signaled an intention to reorient the mission of the country’s top health agencies toward fighting chronic disease,...

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