He’s been. Spreading vaccine misinformation for years

The anti-vaccine nonprofit Children’s Health Defense has spent years railing against a federal public health apparatus it says is foisting unsafe shots upon American youths after having lied to the country about the Covid-19 pandemic.

Now, the group’s most famous former leader and its founder, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is on the inside. It’s the “moment of truth” — the name the group has given its third conference this weekend in Austin, Texas — for the power of what was once seen as a fringe movement.

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A stark example of the devastating impact of vaccine misinformation is Samoa’s 2019 measles outbreak. In this island nation of 200 000, more than 5700 people were infected and 83 people died, most of whom were young children. Samoa’s Ministry of Health cited Kennedy’s visit and his rhetoric as exacerbating vaccine hesitancy vaccine hesitancy at a crucial moment.