Experts saw Samoa's plunging vaccination rates as a crisis. RFK Jr. saw an opportunity.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick for health secretary, sought to use Samoa’s measles vaccine pause as a ‘natural experiment’ months before a deadly outbreak.
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Samoa was facing a measles vaccine crisis. Then RFK Jr. swooped in.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick for health secretary, sought to use Samoa’s measles vaccine pause as a "natural experiment" months before a deadly outbreak.NBC News - 3h -
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