RFK Jr promises anti-vaxxers a ‘friend at the White House’ amid deadly measles outbreak
The US health secretary added that he would’ve made sweeping changes ‘on day one’ but he had to follow the law As the death toll from the worst measles outbreak in decades rises, Robert F Kennedy Jr headlined the Washington DC conference of the anti-vaccine organization Children’s Health Defense, which he led for nearly a decade. “Let me be clear. You have a strong and steadfast friend at the White House,” Kennedy, now serving as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), told anti-vaccine activists at the conference in a nearly hour-and-a-half-long speech. He urged patience, saying that he would’ve made sweeping changes “on day one” but that he had to follow the law in order to make permanent change. “But as I said, you have friends in the White House, and we are doing this one day at a time,” Kennedy said. He only addressed the measles outbreak, which recently killed four people in Pennsylvania, once. “In our country we care about rare illnesses and deaths. We care about every child who dies from measles.
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He stopped to laugh. “What drug was I on that morning?” Anti-vaccine activists had become nervous earlier this year after the White House reportedly put the kibosh on speaking about vaccines before the US midterm elections. “February, March, April, May, vaccine reform got a little quiet, a little scary. RFK Jr promises anti-vaxxers a ‘friend at the White House’ amid deadly measles outbreak - The Guardian. Kennedy attempted to fund their project in Guinea-Bissau looking at mortality after hepatitis B vaccination before local authorities cancelled the project.
