As the death toll from the worst measles outbreak in decades rises, Robert F Kennedy Jr headlined the Washington DC conference of the anti-vaccine organization Children’s Health Defense, which he led for nearly two decades. You have a strong and steadfast friend at the White House,” Kennedy, now serving as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), told anti-vaccine activists at the conference in a nearly hour-and-a-half-long speech. He urged patience, saying that he would’ve made sweeping changes “on day one” but that he had to follow the law in order to make permanent change.
He only addressed the measles outbreak, which recently killed four people in Pennsylvania, once. We care about every child who dies from measles. They get headlines,” he said.
But the majority of Americans also disapprove of the Trump administration’s handling of the widening measles outbreak, which killed three people in Texas and Arizona last year in addition to those inPennsylvania. Kennedy described “vaccine-injured children” as “damaged” because of diagnoses of allergies, asthma, ADHD and autism, among other conditions. He also claimed that diabetes, sudden infant death syndrome, and anorexia can be side effects of routine vaccines, and he said that the system to track such effects is “broken”.
There is little daylight between Kennedy and his former organization. Longtime anti-vaccine activists celebrated their unprecedented role in the national conversation, at times expressing astonishment over the ways anti-vaccine sentiment has been elevated to the highest levels of the US government. Andrew Wakefield, a former gastroenterologist whose medical license was revoked after he was found to have fabricated research indicating a link between vaccines and autism, spoke before and immediately after Kennedy.
You know, behind the scenes, we’re like, “Yeah, what happened?” said Michael Kane, CHD’s director of advocacy. But recent months have shifted vaccines back into the spotlight. Several speakers explicitly linked vaccination to autism, despite decades of research showing no connection.
Meanwhile, Kennedy also focused on the role of food systems in health, and touched on efforts to study electromagnetic fields and chem trails. He praised researchers at the University of Southern Denmark, who are now under investigation by their institution, as “the deities of vaccine research”. Kennedy attempted to fund their project in Guinea-Bissau looking at mortality after hepatitis B vaccination before local authorities cancelled the project.
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