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3 days ago | 
factcheck.org | Catalina Jaramillo |Jessica McDonald |Jessica Mcdonald
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In the past two weeks, U.S. public health authorities have skirted normal procedures and announced two major policy changes that will likely reduce access to COVID-19 vaccines and restrict use to higher-risk populations.
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3 weeks ago | 
factcheck.org | Jessica McDonald |Jessica Mcdonald
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Speaking before Congress, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert. F. Kennedy Jr. misleadingly claimed that Europe doesn’t vaccinate children against chickenpox because a study shows that when you do, “you get shingles in older people.” While that is a theoretical concern, studies have not borne that out — and parts of Europe do vaccinate kids.
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1 month ago | 
nbclosangeles.com | Kate Yandell |Jessica McDonald |Jessica Mcdonald
In announcing new autism prevalence data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
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1 month ago | 
inkl.com | Jessica McDonald |Jessica Mcdonald
Two days later, in Phoenix, Ariz., Kennedy repeated the claim. “Our strategy has been very successful,” he said of dealing with the measles outbreak. “The number continues to grow by the day, but the growth rate … has diminished substantially.”In an interview CBS News released on April 9, he said, “the rate of the increase has substantially decreased, so we are successfully controlling it.” And in an April 10 Cabinet meeting, Kennedy again said that measles cases “have now plateaued.”Andrew T.
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1 month ago | 
factcheck.org | Jessica McDonald |Jessica Mcdonald
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. On four separate occasions, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health and Human Services secretary, has suggested that the measles outbreak in Texas, which is now over 500 cases, is beginning to subside and grow more slowly. But a review of state data indicates there’s no decline yet in the pace of cases.
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2 months ago | 
factcheck.org | Jessica McDonald |Jessica Mcdonald
The measles vaccine uses a weakened virus that’s never been shown to spread to others. Samples from the outbreak in Texas also show that a wild-type virus is responsible. Yet, social media posts have falsely claimed that the outbreak is due to a vaccine strain. Without evidence, other posts have blamed immigrants crossing the southern border illegally. In 2000, following widespread vaccination, the U.S. eliminated measles, a highly contagious disease that can cause serious health complications.
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2 months ago | 
factcheck.org | Catalina Jaramillo |Jessica McDonald |Jessica Mcdonald
In an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made several unsupported or misleading claims about the measles vaccine, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said is safe and “the most important tool to prevent” the disease. Meanwhile, a measles outbreak in Texas continues to expand.
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2 months ago | 
factcheck.org | Jessica McDonald |Jessica Mcdonald
Measles is an extremely contagious vaccine-preventable disease that can lead to death or disability. It also wipes out immune memory for several years after an infection. As an outbreak in Texas continues to expand, social media posts have claimed without sufficient support that measles infections are beneficial later in life against cancer and other diseases, an idea health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has echoed.
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
factcheck.org | Jessica McDonald |Jessica Mcdonald
In the midst of a growing measles outbreak in Texas that has killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has misleadingly focused on vitamin A, including from cod liver oil, and two non-standard medications as treatments for measles. Vitamin A is recommended around the world for measles because there is evidence it can help if someone is deficient, but the benefit to patients in the U.S. is unclear.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
nbclosangeles.com | Jessica McDonald |Jessica Mcdonald
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., head of the Department of Health and Human Services, downplayed the seriousness of an ongoing measles outbreak in Texas, falsely claiming that people had been hospitalized "mainly for quarantine" and misleadingly stating that the situation is "not unusual." The Texas outbreak is already larger than any single outbreak last year and has led to the first measles death in the U.S. since 2015. Kennedy's remarks on Feb.
