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 Digital, Kennedy wrote that vaccines “not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity,

WASHINGTON — Amid a growing outbreak of measles in Texas, recently confirmed Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is urging parents to vaccinate their children against the disease.