Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are tired of talking about measles. In the weeks before and after the controversy over the recent measles-associated deaths in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, HHS officials were characterizing the focus on the spread of the world’s most contagious disease as a campaign by media and Democrats to distract from the toll of chronic disease.

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