WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Samoa's top health official on Monday denounced as 'a complete lie' remarks that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made during his bid to become US health secretary, rejecting his claim that some who died in the country's 2019 measles epidemic didn't have the disease.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Samoa's top health official on Monday denounced as 'a complete lie' remarks that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made during his bid to become US health secretary, rejecting his claim that some who died in the country's 2019 measles epidemic didn't have the disease.
Blood samples from living patients were sent to Australia and New Zealand, where the public health agency said Monday that testing had confirmed the same strain of measles circulating in New Zealand at the time.Why did Kennedy travel to Samoa? 'I went there – nothing to do with vaccines,' Kennedy said Wednesday. 'I went there to introduce a medical informatics system that would digitalize records in Samoa and make health delivery much more efficient.
Jr. Misled The US Senate On Measles Deaths Samoa's Health Chief Says
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