(Undated) – This week, eight public health officials who advise an arm of the United Nations will consider whether the U.S. can still say it’s eliminated measles. The decision will be legacy defining for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The officials will have to determine that a single chain of transmission has continued for at least a year to take away measles-elimination status. The possible loss of measles elimination status comes as Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement is fighting to stay politically relevant and position in the Trump administration.
Measles vaccination rates have declined since Kennedy took over the health department.
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