Two days after initially downplaying the outbreak as “not unusual,” the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, on Friday said he recognizes the serious impact of the ongoing measles epidemic in Texas – in which a child died recently – and said the government is providing resources, including protective vaccines.

“Ending the measles outbreak is a top priority for me and my extraordinary team,” Kennedy – an avowed anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist who for years has sown doubts about the safety and efficacy of vaccines – said in a post on X.

Kennedy said his federal Department of Health and Human Services would send Texas 2,000 doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine – typically meant to be given to children in a series of two shots at 12 to 15 months old as well as between the ages of four and six years old – through its immunization program.

  • @eran_morad
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    142 days ago

    His top priority really ought to be drinking himself to death ASAP.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 day ago

      he has been seen dripping methlyene blue into his drinks on a flight. hes really into the pseudoscience.

    • @glimse
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      32 days ago

      Sorry but I disagree. Drinking yourself to death is not painful enough.

      Someone needs to introduce him to this new homeopathic treatment I just invented called Bath Salts Therapy. Give him his first dose on stage