Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this week that parents should vaccinate their children against measles, a direct endorsement delivered as the United States records its highest annual case count in 35 years.
Speaking on CNN's "State of the Union," Kennedy was pressed by host Dana Bash to look into the camera and tell unvaccinated families to get the shot. He responded that parents should get their children vaccinated for measles, that the vaccine is effective, and that it stops measles in about 97 percent of cases. That figure matches CDC guidance: two doses of MMR are about 97 percent effective, and one dose about 93 percent. Kennedy also said he has never questioned the efficacy of the MMR vaccine.
