In the 18 days since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, his department has postponed or canceled two major vaccine advisory committee meetings,

But in his new opinion piece about the ongoing measles outbreak, published March 2 in Fox News, Kennedy wrote that vaccines “not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity,

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic, seemingly reversed course and touted benefits of MMR vaccine amid deadly Texas measles outbreak.