Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is trying to shed his public image as an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist now that he heads up the Department of Health and Human Services. But in private, he continues to make the same conspiratorial claims he always has, The Atlantic reported on Thursday — and he has even proselytized them to the families of children who died of measles.
One of Kennedy’s first major challenges as health secretary was to manage an outbreak of measles in Texas that has sickened hundreds, killing three. Measles, one of the most infectious viruses known to humans, was essentially wiped out as an endemic disease thanks to the MMR vaccine, which Kennedy has baselessly called dangerous.
He has recently publicly encouraged the use of the MMR vaccine, including in a recent television interview. But not so behind the scenes.
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