RFK Jr. Backs Anti-Vaccine Group During Worst Measles Outbreak in 35 Years
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Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 17
RFK Jr. Backs Anti-Vaccine Group During Worst Measles Outbreak in 35 Years
3 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 17
Summary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the anti-vaccine group he founded that Americans worried about vaccines have “a friend at the White House” and pledged to fight for people who say they were injured by shots.
The health secretary’s appearance came as the United States faces its worst measles outbreak in 35 years, with medical experts saying several of his vaccine claims were misleading.
Children’s Health Defense, the group Kennedy addressed, has long challenged vaccine safety; at the conference he again raised allegations linking vaccines to harms including autism and sudden infant death syndrome.
The speech underscored Kennedy’s break from mainstream public-health messaging at a moment of rising measles deaths, growing doubts about the MMR shot and scrutiny of the administration’s outbreak response.