When U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently wrote that vitamin A “can dramatically reduce measles mortality,” he was remarking on what happens after someone gets infected,

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.

More and more people are becoming infected in the ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas and New Mexico, where more than 200 people have tested positive for the illness. The disease has killed one unvaccinated child in Texas and is suspected in the death of an unvaccinated adult in New Mexico.