Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on July 14 that the United States is dealing well with measles and that he does not plan on declaring a public health emergency for the disease.
“In the individual states, if there are issues, we are there for them, but we don’t at this point consider it a national emergency,” Kennedy told reporters at an unrelated event in Washington when asked whether he planned to declare an emergency.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) recently urged Kennedy to declare a public health emergency for measles, after the number of cases in 2025 reached an annual peak not recorded since 1992, before the disease was declared eliminated from the United States….