Experts saw Samoa's plunging vaccination rates as a crisis. RFK Jr. saw an opportunity. New details show how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then chair of an anti-vaccine group and now Trump’s pick for ...

Some 10 months after halting the vaccine program, Samoa started it up again. “We have to do a lot of catch-up,” Dr. Take Naseri, Samoa’s director general of health, said at the time.

At his Senate confirmation hearing, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told senators that his 2019 trip to Samoa ahead of its fatal measles crisis was not related to vaccines—despite connections he made with ...

At his Senate confirmation hearing, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told senators that his 2019 trip to Samoa ahead of its fatal ...

RFK Jr. asked to explain vaccine stance, pressed about measles outbreak in Samoa 07:11. As U.S. senators grill Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week, President Trump's pick to run the Department of ...

Samoa’s vaccination rates had fallen to fewer than a third of eligible 1-year-olds. Vaccine skepticism has ballooned worldwide, and Mr. Kennedy and others who back him have encouraged it.

During confirmation hearings in January 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely denied that a 2019 trip he took to Samoa had anything to do with vaccines. In 2019, Samoa experienced a measles outbreak ...

In July 2018, two Samoan infants died minutes after their vaccination with the MMR vaccine. In response, Samoa — controversially — paused its measles vaccination program.

The island nation of Samoa is in the midst of a truly devastating measles epidemic. Over 2,600 confirmed cases of the disease have been tallied, with hundreds of new cases being added by the day ...

Cheryl Hines happily joined Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his infamous Samoa visit The ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ star supported her husband at his grueling confirmation hearing Wednesday, just as she ...

In 2018, on the island of Samoa, a nurse made a terrible mistake and used the wrong vial to mix what was intended to be a vaccine. It was given to two young children. Both died. Fear and ...

In 2018, on the island of Samoa, a nurse made a terrible mistake and used the wrong vial to mix what was intended to be a vaccine. It was given to two young children. Both died. Fear and ...