Last week, an 8-year-old gir l became the second child and the third person to die of measles in the current outbreak. But it was Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, who dominated the news cycle. This type of framing makes it sound like families have two equal options for dealing with measles. “It provides a false equivalency—it says you can either get vaccinated or you can be treated with these unproven interventions,” Peter Hotez, dean for the National School of