When U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently wrote that vitamin A “can dramatically reduce measles mortality,” he was remarking on what happens after someone gets infected, not before.
Kennedy knows, as he wrote in that same op-ed, that what actually prevents measles is a vaccine. Yet Kennedy, in discussing the fatal measles outbreak in West Texas, has been quick to de-emphasize that fact, instead telling Fox News that health officials in Texas “are getting very, very good results” with patients by using cod liver oil, which he said had high concentrations of vitamin A and vitamin D, along with an antibiotic called clarithromycin and a steroid, budesonide.
