The editorial board of the New York Submit is urging Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to make clear that the measles vaccine is protected amid a lethal outbreak in Texas.
“Go to Texas, Mr. Secretary, and preach the truth as only a convert can: This vaccine is safe, and getting children jabbed is an act of love,” the Submit wrote to Kennedy. “That’s why all your children are vaccinated, despite your well-known concerns.”
Such a proclamation, the Submit argued, would make nationwide information given Kennedy’s historical past of vaccine skepticism, and would “surely convince others elsewhere — and so quietly save lives.”
The Submit is owned by billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who additionally owns The Wall Avenue Journal, one other publication that has referred to as on Kennedy to alter his views on vaccines.
“That one of his first moves on taking over at Health and Human Services was to announce plans for an investigation of the nation’s vaccine schedule — something he’d vowed to Congress he wouldn’t alter — only deepened doubts,” the Submit wrote in its editorial. “Convince us you’re no longer a crank, Mr. Secretary: Head down to Texas and wave the flag for the measles vaccine.”
