Not even three months into 2025, the US is approaching the number of measles cases it saw in all of last year: 222 and counting. A growing outbreak in Texas and New Mexico has claimed two lives, including one unvaccinated school-aged child.

In the midst of a growing measles outbreak in Texas that has killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has misleadingly focused on vitamin A, including from cod liver oil,

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer RFK Jr. has claimed that cod liver oil, budesonide, and clarithromycin have shown "very, very good results" as remedies for measles.Infectious disease experts, however, say these treatments don't have much medically sound backup and are not intended as measles remedies.