RFK Jr. Makes Disturbing Claims Linking Measles To Poor Diet And Exercise
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He also baselessly claimed that natural immunity from measles and other diseases could protect people from cancer and cardiac disease.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist serving as the secretary of Health and Human Services, made some wild claims about the link between measles, diet and exercise in an interview last week.
The interview aired on Fox Nation, Fox News Channel’s paid subscription service, the same day President Donald Trump delivered his speech to a joint session of Congress. The conversation between Kennedy and Fox News senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel largely flew under the radar until The New York Times reported on it Monday.
“We see a correlation between people who get hurt by measles and people who are ― who don’t have good nutrition or who don’t have a good exercise regimen,” Kennedy told Siegel at one point during the 35-minute sit-down.
His comments were anchored to the current measles outbreak in West Texas, where there have been nearly 200 confirmed infections, 23 hospitalizations, and one death of an unvaccinated child ― the first such fatality in the U.S. in a decade ― who was part of a Mennonite congregation in Gaines County.
Without providing evidence, Kennedy pointed to malnutrition and lack of access to fresh foods in the area as factors that “may have been an issue in her death.”
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