A top staffer to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly quit after just two weeks on the job over his management of a growing measles outbreak.Thomas Corry, who had served in Donald Trump's first administration,
During a Trump administration cabinet meeting, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed the ongoing measles outbreak in Texas that has killed a child and resulted in over 120 cases of the disease since January.
In an interview, the H.H.S. secretary claimed that unconventional treatments were helping patients but described vaccination as a personal choice.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has described the outbreak in West Texas last week as a “top priority.” But he has not explicitly encouraged Americans to get vaccinated.