RFK Jr. Says Vaccine Might Have Stopped Child Measles Death

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. acknowledged that vaccination may have saved the 6-year-old Texas child who died from measles last year, even as he defended the Trump administration’s controversial policies at a hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday.

Kennedy’s questioning before the House Ways and Means Committee forced the nation’s top health leader to discuss immunizations, even after the administration issued a directive to avoid talking about the changes that are deeply unpopular with the American public. It was the first in a series of seven annual budget hearings Kennedy faces.