Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary, dispelled lies propagated by the media regarding the death of a child they falsely claimed died from measles.
Appearing in an interview with CBS News on Wednesday, Kennedy explained the death of eight-year-old Daisy Hildebrand earlier this month happened due to a culmination of medical factors — not just because of measles or because she wasn’t vaccinated for measles, as the media has claimed.
“You know, there’s only three deaths from measles in 20 years and they’re all people with extreme complications,” Kennedy told a CBS reporter. “And that’s how you die from measles, because of the complications.”
The HHS Secretary went over Hildebrand’s history of illnesses, mentioning how she’d previously had a measles infection her parents say she recovered from.
“Well…Daisy Hildebrand…was hospitalized three times…from other illnesses. She had extreme tonsillectomy. She had mononucleosis that she could not kick and then she got measles. She got over the measles, according to her parents, and according to medical reports.”
“I saw a report on it today,” RFK said, adding, “the thing that killed her was not the measles, but it was a bacteriological infection of her lungs.”
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