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https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/
Calls for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s resignation are growing
after two unvaccinated people died from measles in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
There have been 393 confirmed measles cases in 28 counties in Pennsylvania this year,
and 2,777 total cases nationally
—a 35-year high.
These are the first measles deaths in the United States this year, and in Pennsylvania in more than three decades.
“RFK Jr.’s lies and conspiracy theories are making …
2 more Pennsylvanians die with measles, reigniting fight between RFK Jr. and Josh Shapiro (Sophie Gardner/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/15/measles-deaths-reignite-rfk-jr-shapiro-fight-01078324
http://www.memeorandum.com/260915/p168#a260915p168
RFK Jr. Suggests Pennsylvania Measles Deaths May Have Been
'Fabricated' By Governor Josh Shapiro's Staffers
The health and human services secretary is one of the most prominent vaccine skeptics in the country.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-j…
Dr. Erica Schwartz,
the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
⚠️ordered agency officials to challenge two measles deaths reported by Pennsylvania,
-- shunning the agency’s normal procedure of accepting data shared by states
and amplifying comments made by her boss, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The incident draws the C.D.C. into a highly political disagreement
about whether the deaths were a result of measles or merely coin…
The past 18 months have seen more measles cases than the last 25 years combined.
The vast majority of infected people
—93 percent
—were unvaccinated, according to the CDC.
The number is expected to only grow higher, as new outbreaks have been reported in Wyoming, Delaware, and Arizona.
It doesn’t help that the CDC hasn’t had a permanent director for most of Trump’s second term,
and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is skepti…
Newly obtained documents indicate that the US health secretary,
Robert F Kennedy Jr, lied during two congressional hearings last year,
when he told lawmakers who held the key to his confirmation that a 2019 visit to Samoa had “nothing to do with vaccines”.
Letters obtained by the Guardian and the Associated Press contradict that testimony.
In one he wrote to the Samoan prime minister before the trip, Kennedy explicitly said he wanted to study the measles, mumps and ru…