Hey, RFK: Go to Texas and prove you mean it on vaccines

In seeking Senate approval to take his new job, Health Secretary Robert Kennedy insisted he’d come around on the safety and efficacy of (most) vaccines.Now he has a chance to prove he really meant it.The measles outbreak in Texas (and now New Mexico) just claimed its first life, an unvaccinated school-age child who’d been hospitalized in Lubbock last week.It was the first US measles death since 2015.More may be ahead: Most of the Texas cases are among the Mennonite faith community, where resistance to vaccinations is strong.Go to Texas, Mr.Secretary, and preach the truth as only a convert can: This vaccine is safe, and getting children jabbed is an act of love.That’s why all your children are vaccinated, despite your well-known concerns.Maybe you won’t persuade any Mennonites, but it will make national news and surely convince others elsewhere — and so quietly save lives.More, it’ll settle the suspicions that risk undermining the rest of your Make America Healthy Again agenda, and so do even more good.

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Never miss a story.RFK has yet to convince us that he’s truly seen the light on immunizations, and we’re far from alone.That one of his first moves on taking over at Health and Human Services was to announce plans for an investigation of the nation’s vaccine schedule — something he’d vowed to Congress he wouldn’t alter — only deepened doubts.“Nothing is going to be off limits,” he told HHS employees then.

Nothing?Then keeping your word should be safely in-bounds.Convince us you’re no longer a crank, Mr.

Secretary: Head down to Texas and wave the flag for the measles vaccine....