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‘Top Priority’: RFK Jr. Backtracks After Embarrassing Measles Misstep

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The secretary of Health and Human Services said on Wednesday that the measles outbreak was “not unusual.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. backtracked two days after he dismissed the first American child’s death from measles in decades by saying that outbreaks were “not unusual.”

“Ending the measles outbreak is a top priority for me and my extraordinary team at HHS,” President Donald

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