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2 weeks ago |
wqow.com | Neha Mukherjee |John Bonifield
(CNN) — US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. publicly urged people to get the measles vaccine in an interview with CBS News on Tuesday. “We encourage people to get the measles vaccine,” Kennedy told the network’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Jon LaPook. “The federal government’s position, my position, is that people should get the measles vaccine, but the government should not be mandating those,” Kennedy said.
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2 weeks ago |
accuweather.com | Neha Mukherjee |John Bonifield
Most of the measles cases that have been reported in Texas have been in rural Gaines County. (Photo credit: Justin Rex/The Texas Tribune/Reuters via CNN Newsource) (CNN) — US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. publicly urged people to get the measles vaccine in an interview with CBS News on Tuesday.
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2 weeks ago |
local3news.com | John Bonifield |Lauren Mascarenhas
(CNN) — A school-aged child died at a Texas hospital where they were receiving treatment for measles, marking the second death of a minor in the state linked to the ongoing outbreak. “We are deeply saddened to report that a school-aged child who was recently diagnosed with measles has passed away. The child was receiving treatment for complications of measles while hospitalized,” Aaron Davis, vice president of UMC Health System in Lubbock, Texas, told CNN in a statement.
Kennedy arrives in Texas after a second unvaccinated child dies of measles amid the state’s outbreak
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applevalleynewsnow.com | John Bonifield |Lauren Mascarenhas
(CNN) — US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he has arrived in west Texas after a school-aged child died at a local hospital where they were receiving treatment for measles – marking the second death of a minor in the state linked to the ongoing outbreak. “My intention was to come down here quietly to console the families and to be with the community in their moment of grief,” Kennedy said in a post on X Sunday.
Kennedy arrives in Texas after a second unvaccinated child dies of measles amid the state’s outbreak
2 weeks ago |
news8000.com | John Bonifield |Lauren Mascarenhas
(CNN) — US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he has arrived in west Texas after a school-aged child died at a local hospital where they were receiving treatment for measles – marking the second death of a minor in the state linked to the ongoing outbreak. “My intention was to come down here quietly to console the families and to be with the community in their moment of grief,” Kennedy said in a post on X Sunday.
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