Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary, dispelled lies propagated by the media regarding the death of a child they falsely claimed died from measles.
Appearing in an interview with CBS News on Wednesday, Kennedy explained the death of eight-year-old Daisy Hildebrand earlier this month happened due to a culmination of medical factors — not just because of measles or because she wasn’t vaccinated for measles, as the media has claimed.
Kennedy then dropped the bombshell.
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The child who passed away did not pass away from measles, despite what the media claimed.
“The child whose funeral I attended this week was hospitalized three times from other illnesses.”
“She got measles and she got over the measles… pic.twitter.com/DbbjzmFhH4
“You know, there’s only three deaths from measles in 20 years and they’re all people with extreme complications,” Kennedy told a CBS reporter. “And that’s how you die from measles, because of the complications.”
The HHS Secretary went over Hildebrand’s history of illnesses, mentioning how she’d previously had a measles infection her parents say she recovered from.
“Well…Daisy Hildebrand…was hospitalized three times…from other illnesses. She had extreme tonsillectomy. She had mononucleosis that she could not kick and then she got measles. She got over the measles, according to her parents, and according to medical reports.”
“I saw a report on it today,” RFK said, adding, “the thing that killed her was not the measles, but it was a bacteriological infection of her lungs.”
Kennedy’s comments come as he released a statement on Sunday claiming, “The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine.”
However, Hildebrand’s father Pete, who had dinner with RFK, said the Health and Human Services Secretary never mentioned the vaccine, which the father said he knows is not effective.
“He did not say that the vaccine was effective,” Hildebrand, who has two other children, told the media. “I had supper with the guy … and he never said anything about that.”
He continued: “I know it’s not effective because some family members ended up getting the vaccine, and they got the measles way worse than some of my kids…The vaccine was not effective.”
RFK has previously said he would not give his children the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine, arguing the disease is transitory with a low morbidity rate for healthy kids.
“Back then, you know, we were treated with chicken soup, and and it was, you know, a a week at home watching Leave It to Beaver, and every kid caught it. Every single kid got it. And I had 11 brothers and sisters, and we all got it, and we were all fine,” RFK told John Stossel last August.
“And there are lots and lots of studies out there now that show that kids who get measles as a child are much healthier when they grow up, that they’re much more resistant to cancers, to atopic diseases, to allergies, and to heart disease.”
During the CBS interview, RFK clarified that his and the government’s official positions are that “people should get the measles vaccine, but that the government should not be mandating those.”
“I’ve always said during my campaign and every part, every public statement I’ve made: I’m not going to take people’s vaccines away from them — what I’m gonna do is make sure we have good science so people can make an informed choice…”
Following the interview, Children’s Health Defense, the non-profit formerly headed by RFK, told its “dedicated followers” that “We’re reading between the lines, are you?”
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