Governor Josh Green (D-HI) joins CNN’s Erin Burnett to discuss Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s testimony during his confirmation hearing to be President Donald Trump’s health and human services secretary about his role in the deadly measles outbreak in Samoa in 2019.
Senators pressed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his past vaccine and abortion remarks in the first of two days of hearings before senators vote on whether to confirm him as President Trump’s health secretary.
Gov. Josh Green battled a measles outbreak that killed 83 people, mostly children. President Trump wants Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a vaccine skeptic, as his health policy chief.
Texas reports a minor measles outbreak due to low vaccination rates. Health officials urge vaccinations to prevent the spread.
1st 2025 Georgia measles case reported in metro Atlanta
HHS nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Senator Ron Wyden he is "not anti-vaccine" in his confirmation hearing.
HOUSTON — The Houston Health Department has confirmed the city's first measles cases here since 2018. Both patients are adults who have traveled internationally recently. They live in the same household. Health officials are investigating the cases and ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushed back on questioning from Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) about his vaccine views. “I support the measles vaccine. I support the polio vaccine. I will do nothing as HHS secretary that makes it difficult or discourages” for people to get those vaccines,
In 2019, a devastating measles outbreak erupted in Samoa. Eighty-three people, most of them children, died. Another 5,000 contracted the disease, many of which suffer long-term damage as a result. In total, around 3% of the small island’s population fell ill.
The City of Lubbock has confirmed a positive case of measles in an area school-aged child who was recently treated at a Lubbock healthcare facility.
Dr. Theresa Tam says all of the people who were recently infected were exposed to measles in Canada, rather than international travel, which was the initial source.