NY Post challenges RFK Jr. on Texas measles outbreak: 'This vaccine is safe'

The editorial board of the New York Post is urging Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to clarify that the measles vaccine is safe amid a deadly 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 Post wrote to Kennedy. "That’s why all your children are vaccinated, despite your well-known concerns."

Such a proclamation, the Post argued, would make national news given Kennedy's history of vaccine skepticism, and would "surely convince others elsewhere — and so quietly save lives."

The Post is owned by billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who also owns The Wall Street Journal, another publication that has called on Kennedy to change 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 Post 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."

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