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A fact sheet for measles sits on a table at a mobile clinic offering free vaccinations on February 6, 2026 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The clinic offered free MMR vaccinations as the South Carolina Department of Health reported 876 cases of measles earlier in the week, most centered in Spartanburg County. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Measles outbreaks are here to stay

Nicole Karlis
Donald Trump | Birth Control Blister Packs (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Misinfo at Trump’s women’s health summit

Amanda Seitz - KFF Health News
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talks to guests following an event to release the new Make America Healthy Again Commission report in the East Room of the White House on May 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

RFK Jr.'s vaccine fight isn't over

Garrett Owen
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., left, and COVID-19 vaccine adviser Retsef Levi (Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Lane Turner / Boston Globe / Taylor Hill / WireImage)

RFK Jr.’s vaccine adviser under scrutiny

Jelinda Montes
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during an event to "Celebrate the Implementation of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans" at the Health and Human Services Headquarters on February 11, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

RFK Jr.'s glyphosate reversal

Garrett Owen
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Donald Trump at the White House, Feb. 13, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images))

Trump’s risky public health charade

Troy Farah
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RFK Jr's risky attacks on HPV vaccines

Nicole Karlis
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., joined by President Donald Trump, delivers at the White House on Sept. 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

RFK Jr. is winning MAHA’s vaccine war

Heather Digby Parton
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The Moderna logo appears on a laptop computer screen in this photo illustration in Athens, Greece, on February 9, 2026. (Photo Illustration by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

FDA rejects Moderna flu vaccine

Garrett Owen
USAID flag seen February 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

How USAID cuts are affecting the world

Nicole Karlis
A vial of the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella vaccination for children is displayed during an immunization event at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan Community Resource Center in Los Angeles, California, on October 24, 2025. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images)

S.C. measles outbreak breaks record

Jelinda Montes
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. waits to enter a meeting with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Capitol Hill on January 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

RFK Jr. set back by resistance

Sophia Tesfaye
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CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA - SEPTEMBER 15: A child receives a standard immunization at Doctor Gary M. Kramer, MD, PA's Pediatric office on September 15, 2025, in Coral Gables, Florida. The Florida Department of Health recently released information on the development of rulemaking to revise immunization and document requirements for school entry. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

New vaccine guidance is "dangerous"

Nicole Karlis
Social and political issue of healthcare and medicine changes and reform in USA politics and policies, symbolized by a close-up of a stethoscope resting on a the cloth fabric of the United States flag.

Reinventing public health under Trump

Nicole Karlis
Luigi Mangione appears with his lawyers for a suppression-of-evidence hearing in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan Criminal Court on Dec. 8, 2025, in New York City. (Sarah Yenesel - Pool/Getty Images)

Care even worse since Mangione arrest

Troy Farah
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Why RFK Jr.'s individualism is dangerous

Troy Farah
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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 30: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services testifies during his Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kennedy is testifying for a second day following a tense three-hour hearing before the Senate Finance Committee where he clashed with Democrats over his stance on vaccines and abortion rights. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

RFK could fumble a bad flu season

Nicole Karlis
Signs point the way to measles testing in the parking lot of the Seminole Hospital District across from Wigwam Stadium on February 27, 2025 in Seminole, Texas. ((Photo by Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images))

The US will lose its measles-free status

Kathryn H. Jacobsen - The Conversation
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., joined by President Donald Trump, delivers at the White House on Sept. 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

RFK Jr.'s attack on mRNA will cost lives

Howard Dean
Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo speaks at a press conference in Sanford, Florida. (Photo by Paul Hennessy/Getty Images)

Florida vax mandate ban based on vibes

Alex Galbraith
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U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies during a Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Building on January 29, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chen Mengtong/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)

Vaccine falsehoods are guiding policy

Deborah Fuller - The Conversation
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks with Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a Turning Point Action Rally in Duluth, GA on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

RFK thinks your kids aren't cute enough

Amanda Marcotte
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Donald Trump at the White House, Feb. 13, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images))

RFK Jr. is strangling public health

Heather Digby Parton
Displaced Palestinian children push into a queue to get a portion of cooked food from a charity kitchen in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, ahead of the iftar fast-breaking meal during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on March 9, 2025. (OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images)

War is also an assault on public health

Andrea Mazzarino - TomDispatch.com
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