The White House has reportedly urged Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to avoid talking about vaccines, but this morning he had no choice. When he appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee'the first of seven congressional testimonies that he's scheduled to give in the coming days as part of the 2027-budgeting process'members pressed him on the issue, which he has written and spoken about nearly nonstop for two decades. He mostly sidestepped those questions, declining to repeat claims he's made before about the supposed links between vaccines and autism (no such links have been found), or about how contracting measles might boost a person's immune system (the opposite is true). When asked whether an unvaccinated girl who died of measles in Texas last year might have been saved by the shot, the health secretary responded: 'It's possible, certainly.' Kennedy recently seems to be steering clear of public statements about vaccines because the White House...
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