Measles Deaths Rise as RFK Jr. Faces Criticism Over Outbreak Response

Measles, a disease once nearly erased from American life through the collective act of vaccination, has returned to claim lives — and with it, a reckoning over who holds responsibility for public health in a fractured moment. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wielding influence over federal health policy, has offered reassurances that experts and fact-checkers alike have found disconnected from the rising death toll. As local officials step into the void left by federal inaction, the country confronts an old question in new form: what becomes of shared protection when trust in its instruments is allowed