The co-hosts of "The View" attacked new Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after they said he got basic facts wrong during the Wednesday Cabinet meeting. An outbreak in Texas claimed its first life this week,

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board published an op-ed Monday calling on Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to set aside his anti-vaccine activist positions in light of the nearly 50 measles cases that have been confirmed among mostly unvaccinated children in Texas.

Trump’s new Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is also targeting the root causes of chronic diseases, including in children.

The New York Post editorial board challenged Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to publicly back vaccines amid a measles outbreak in Texas.

Claim: A claim has circulated suggesting that a boy in Texas died from measles because of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) and Republicans’ anti-vaccine

I do blame him and others like him who, for the past 20 years, have been spreading lies about vaccines," said Rep. Kim Schrier (D-Wash.).

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier this week dismissed the measles outbreak in West Texas that killed an unvaccinated child as "not unusual" and appeared to misstate a number of key facts.

Robert F. Kennedy, in his first comments on measles as the new Trump health secretary, says the outbreak is not unusual. 'We have measles outbreaks every year.'

A growing measles outbreak in Texas, where one unvaccinated child died and nearly 20 others have been hospitalized with serious complications, marks the first major test for U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

“We have measles outbreaks every year,” he added. Mr. Kennedy has also said in the past that immunizations against measles and some other infectious diseases are unnecessary and risky.

Public health experts are questioning RFK Jr's comments after he said the Texas measles outbreak was "not unusual."