HHS secretary failed to respond to critics in editorial amid growing calls for him to resign and chaos across the agency
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), defended his response to the largest measles outbreak in the US in 33 years in a new editorial, calling it an example of “what a focused” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “can achieve”.
Kennedy did so in a Wall Street Journal editorial published on Tuesday, which coincides with extreme tumult at the CDC and strong claims from a former employee that the secretary wasn’t even briefed on the measles outbreak.
