US Health Secretary Rober F Kennedy Jr said on Wednesday that his response to a large measles outbreak in west Texas should be a “model for the world”. The remarks from the controversial politician came after Kennedy’s response to the outbreak had been widely criticized by epidemiologists and public health experts.
Not only this, the health secretary was boasting about his work in dealing with measles shortly after he attended the funeral of a third measles victim over the weekend. Experts argued that the political scion has failed to give a full-throated endorsement of an extremely effective vaccine, that cases appear to be severely undercounted and that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials were deployed late.
“The numbers continue to grow by the day, but … the growth rate has diminished substantially,” Kennedy told reporters during a press conference while promoting his health agenda through the American Southwest. “I would compare it to what’s happening in Europe now,” Kennedy continued, according to Politico. “They’ve had 127,000 cases and 37 deaths. And so, what we’re doing right here in the United States is a model for the rest of the world.”
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