Robert F. Kennedy Jr. managed to clear the lowest bar imaginable when he acknowledged in a Fox News op-ed over the weekend that “Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons.”

The health secretary has long pushed misinformation about vaccines and played down an outbreak in Texas that has led to the death of a child.

A doctor has accused Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, of downplaying a measles outbreak in Texas by saying outbreaks are "not unusual" in the United States.