As a Samoan woman, I was SHOCKED that the Senate confirmed him as Secretary of Health and Human Services following his controversial trip to Samoa in 2019. Per PBS, “Samoan officials later said Kennedy’s trip bolstered the credibility of anti-vaccine activists ahead of the measles outbreak, which sickened thousands of people and killed 83, mostly children under age 5.”

In the 2023 documentary Shot in the Arm, RFK Jr. said, “I had nothing to do with people not vaccinating in Samoa. I never told anybody not to vaccinate. I didn’t, you know, go there for any reason to do with that.”