US health official quits after reported clashes with RFK Jr over measles

Robert F Kennedy, the vaccine skeptic health secretary, initially downplayed a measles outbreak in Texas that has already killed one unvaccinated child. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

A top spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services has abruptly resigned from the department, just two weeks after starting the job and as the country grapples with an escalating measles outbreak.

Tom Corry, who served as assistant secretary of public affairs at HHS, said on Monday that he resigned on Friday effective immediately.