Josh Shapiro accuses RFK Jr. of conspiracy theories in feud over measles in Pennsylvania

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Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) has accused Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of peddling conspiracy theories about vaccines regarding the two reported measles deaths in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. 

Shapiro and Kennedy each took jabs at one another in the hours following the governor’s announcement on Tuesday that two individuals had died from measles infections in southeastern Pennsylvania amid one of the commonwealth’s worst outbreaks in three decades. 

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