Top HHS Spokesperson Resigns After Two Weeks in the Job

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Thomas Corry, the top spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, resigned effective immediately after only a couple of weeks in the job as Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs.

Corry reportedly left due to strong disagreement with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his management of a growing measles outbreak that began in west Texas.

During last week’s Cabinet meeting, Kennedy said outbreaks of measles are “not unusual.” In 2000, the Centers for Disease Control declared measles eliminated in the USA, but falling levels of vaccination against the disease allowed it to resurge.

Kennedy is vocally anti-vaccine, although his own children are vaccinated. Kennedy’s advice to the public about the current outbreak stops far short of telling parents to get their children vaccinated and telling adults to get a booster if their vaccination was too long ago.

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