Contributor: RFK Jr.'s focus on viral nonsense is putting children's lives at risk
Los Angeles Times • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a video of himself and Kid Rock engaging in shirtless calisthenics and drinking whole milk, which sparked internet mockery but also real anger among medical professionals.
- Under Kennedy’s leadership, vaccine policy has been undermined by firing expert advisory members, replacing them with skeptics, cutting NIH funding, halting mRNA research, and weakening the childhood immunization schedule.
- These actions have contributed to a resurgence of measles in the U.S., with over 2,200 cases in 2025 and nearly 1,000 cases in a South Carolina outbreak, threatening the country’s measles elimination status.
- Trust in the CDC and vaccine confidence,
