"Documents obtained by the Guardian and the Associated Press undermine that testimony. Emails sent by staff at the US embassy and the United Nations provide, for the first time, an inside look at how Kennedy's trip came about and include contemporaneous accounts suggesting his concerns about vaccine safety motivated the visit. The documents have prompted concerns from at least one US senator that the lawyer and activist now leading America's health policy lied to Congress over the visit."
"Samoan officials later said Kennedy's trip bolstered the credibility of anti-vaccine activists ahead of the measles outbreak that sickened thousands and killed 83 people, mostly children under age five. The revelations, which come as measles outbreaks erupt across the US, build on previous criticism that Kennedy's anti-vaccine record makes him unfit to serve as health secretary, a role in which he has worked to radically reshape immunization policy and public perceptions of vaccines."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly told senators his 2019 Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. Contemporaneous embassy and United Nations emails and documents indicate his concerns about vaccine safety motivated the visit and that a US embassy employee helped arrange meetings with Samoan officials. Samoan officials said the visit enhanced credibility of anti-vaccine activists before a measles outbreak that sickened thousands and killed 83 children under five. Kennedy has said he went to introduce a medical data system and later held conversations with people he had not intended to meet. The revelations have raised questions about the accuracy of his testimony and his fitness to shape immunization policy.
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