As a measles outbreak in West Texas continues to grow, the response from US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has leaned heavily on treatment with vitamin A, as well as “good results” from the use of the steroid budesonide,

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,

The measles outbreak in Texas appears to have spread into neighboring New Mexico, a fact that U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dubbed concerning. Cases have also been detected in other states.