Laila Kirkpatrick, Staff Writer
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has endorsed the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. This has provoked numerous anti-vaccine activists and followers of the once anti-vaccine zealot. In a social media post made on X (formerly known as Twitter), he said, “The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine.”
Kennedy made the post following meetings on Sunday in Gaines County, Texas with the families of two children who had died from the measles during a recent outbreak. Kennedy Jr. also said that he had instructed the CDC to, “supply pharmacies and Texas run clinics with needed MMR vaccines” alongside other medical supplies. Kennedy’s endorsement is in line with other scientific evidence on the MMR vaccine. So far, three unvaccinated people have died from the disease, two children in Texas and one adult in New Mexico.
