CNN  —  During a Cabinet meeting last week, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed what is now the second-worst measles outbreak in the US since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000. Kennedy has claimed repeatedly that measles cases have “plateaued,” despite contradictory data from his own federal agencies. On Friday, the health department in Texas – the center of the outbreak that now spans multiple states – reported 232 new cases over the past three