Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. rambled through a long list of topics when he spoke at the White House during [a] cabinet meeting [on January 29, 2026].
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But there was one subject Kennedy skipped, in an omission as disturbing as it was conspicuous. He didn’t say a word about the measles outbreak in South Carolina, which is the nation’s biggest in decades.
As of [January 28, 2026], the South Carolina Department of Public Health had logged more than eight hundred cases of the highly contagious disease, with many more unreported infections presumably out there …. The official tally is now growing by more than a hundred cases each week and has blown past the count from last year’s Texas outbreak, which killed three people, including the first two American children to die of measles in a decade.
“This is a milestone that we have reached in a relatively short period of time, very unfortunately, and it’s just disconcerting to consider what our final trajectory will look like,” South Carolina state epidemiologist Linda Bell said ….
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