With apologies to Tom Jones …

Kennedy made his first public appearance in the top health role on Wednesday at a cabinet meeting with Donald Trump in the White House. He said that the measles epidemic was being followed by the government “every day”, but then appeared to try to minimize the seriousness of the spread.

“It’s not unusual. We have measles outbreaks every year,” he said.

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    22 hours ago

    While we have a presidential cabinet doing their best to get rid of any department maintaining these viruses. . . I’m not blaming them for the outbreak, but I will blame them when it becomes a frequent issue across the country again.

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      21 hours ago

      Conservative anti-vax idiots are responsible for the measles outbreak in the first place, so Trump and his administration are entirely responsible for its impact for encouraging a distrust in science among conservative idiots.