Kennedy Jr. at campaign event in November 2023. [AP Photo/Meg Kinnard] The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas, which began in January, has become the largest in the

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. publicly backed the measles vaccine Sunday amid an outbreak of the disease in Texas that has already killed one child. The 71-year-old vaccine skeptic had previously criticized the immunization and called the outbreak “not unusual” last week,

But this week, the anti-vax world faced a reckoning when Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of the nation’s most prominent anti-vaccine activists, wrote an op-ed for Fox News calling for MMR vaccines to be “readily accessible for all those who want them” amid an ongoing and sometimes fatal measles outbreak in Texas and other states.