Discussion on Measles Outbreak and Vaccination

Every meal, but, you know, we will make sure

that you're taken care of.

Has the war had an impact on your campaign at this point?

It looks like the polls are showing it kind of neck and neck.

We're not gonna talk about that. We're gonna keep the questions on today's

topic.

Is there any other questions?

Mr. Secretary, uh, do you believe that five deaths,

potentially six, from measles in the state of Pennsylvania

is acceptable?

We're also not gonna talk about measles.

He's the highest-ranking-

I'm asking-

... health official in the country. He can answer that question.

He's a cabinet secretary. Mr. Secretary?

Uh, we've done better. They're-- We're having a global

measles outbreak right now. It's all over the world,

and the measles outbreak is

occurring because so many people went unvaccinated

during the COVID pandemic, and this is something that

Anthony Fauci, in fact, predicted.

He said, "We're gonna kill more people from measles

than we save from COVID

as we're shutting down measles vaccination programs." So now, six years

later,

we're seeing that population. We have a global outbreak.

We have done better, and particularly my administration has

done better at

controlling the outbreak than any other country in the world.

Mexico, we've had four thousand measles cases this

year.

Mexico, which has a third of our population,

had twenty thousand.

Canada has seven thousand, has a third of our-- or one-eighth of our

population. In Europe, they've had a hundred

and thirty-five thousand

cases. So we're doing better at controlling

it than any coun-country in the world.

Unfortunately, in Pennsylvania, the governor, the only state

where the governor would not accept CDC EPI aid.

All the other states, we've been able to bring these epidem-

these outbreaks to a

quick halt.

In Texas, in Kansas, South Carolina,

Virginia. I think the last case in Virginia

was maybe

sixty, seventy days ago.

And all the other states where there's been outbreaks,

we've been able to bring it

quickly to an end. I'm confident now, this

week, we finally got the request from

Pennsylvania.

They were politicizing the outbreak there. They didn't want our aid.

They told us that they didn't want help from the Trump administration.

The people of Pennsylvania suffered.

Now they've asked us to come in and help them, and we're gonna do that,

and I'm

confident that we'll bring that outbreak

to a quick close.

That's all we have time for today. Thank you, press.

Okay.

Thank you.