RFK Jr. Visits Texas After Death Of Second Child

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has traveled to the epicenter of Texas’ measles outbreak after a second school-aged child who was not vaccinated died from a measles-related illness. The death was confirmed Sunday by a spokesman for UMC Health System in Lubbock, Texas, and the Texas State Department of State Health Services. The state health department said the child died Thursday of “what the child’s doctors described as measles pulmonary failure.” The first measles death in the U.S. in a decade was in an unvaccinated school-age child in February in Lubbock. An adult in New Mexico who was unvaccinated became the second death in March. Kennedy says in a social media post Sunday that he is in Gaines County, Texas, to comfort the children’s families.