Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. insisted he was doing a "good job" controlling a measles outbreak that he said had neared 1,300 cases this year, the most since the disease was eradicated in the country.
During a Monday event on removing dyes from ice cream, NBC News asked Kennedy about the ongoing outbreak.
"There's an international measles outbreak right now," Kennedy explained. "We are doing probably better than any, certainly better than any of the other industrial countries in the world in controlling it. We've had about 1,300 measles cases in this country."
The secretary pointed out that Mexico and Canada had more cases despite having smaller populations.
"We've done a very, very good job at controlling it," Kennedy insisted. "The outbreaks are actually declining. We have CDC teams everywhere where governors have requested it."
"And we are also taking care of those populations that don't want to vaccinate," he added. "Most of the cases are unvaccinated Americans. There are some populations that do not want to vaccinate."
Watch the video below from C-SPAN.
