Communities around the United States are wrestling with a rising number of measles outbreaks. It will be popular, especially among liberal media, to blame noted vaccine conspiracy theorist and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. But the fact is that the public health bureaucracy’s handling of COVID-19 vaccinations has done incredible damage to public confidence in vaccinations.
The U.S. is in the midst of its worst measles outbreak since 2019, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noting 308 cases this year, more in 2 1/2 months than the entirety of 2024. This same thing happened last year, when the U.S. saw more measles cases in the first three months of 2024 than all of 2023. In February, a child in Texas became the first person in the U.S. to die of measles since the 2019 outbreak, which this year is on track to match.
