HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier this week dismissed the measles outbreak in West Texas that killed an unvaccinated child as "not unusual" and appeared to misstate a number of key facts.

Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday about the ongoing measles outbreak in Texas — and what those comments reveal about what Kennedy will — or won’t — do to protect public health going forward. Kennedy’s comments came at the start of Trump’s first Cabinet meeting,

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., head of the Department of Health and Human Services, downplayed the seriousness of an ongoing measles outbreak in Texas, falsely claiming that people had been hospitalized “mainly for quarantine” and misleadingly stating that the situation is “not unusual.