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False claims about autism

While Robert F. Kennedy Jr — United States Secretary of Health and Human Services — publicly supported Wakefield's disproven theory that vaccines cause autism, and was the founder of the anti-vaccine Children's Health Defense, on 28 February, during the 2025 Southwest US measles outbreak, he announced that he would be sending 2,000 doses of the MMR vaccine to Texas along with other resources. A New York Times article reporting on the death of a child in Texas from measles — the first in ten years in the United States, said that vaccine hesitancy had been rising for many years.