If you’ve turned on the late local news or your favorite liberal-leaning cable outlet these last few weeks, you’ve heard the story: There’s a measles outbreak that started in Texas.
You’ve also probably heard the subtext: President Donald Trump chose a noted vaccine skeptic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to run the Department of Health and Human Services. The two are supposed to be connected.
Never mind the fact that RFK Jr. has called for children to be vaccinated against measles after the outbreak began, saying in a media release that “[v]accines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons.”
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Never mind, too, that out of 146 confirmed cases
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