1. United States
2. Ohio
3. Letter

Investigate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s interference in CDC measles death reporting, and move to impeach, convict, and remove him from office. The US is on the verge of losing its measles elimination status, with more than 5,400 cases nationally, six deaths in Pennsylvania, and children dead in New York and Wisconsin. Nearly every state has an active outbreak. The MMR vaccine is 97% effective, and the overwhelming majority of Americans vaccinate their children. But Kennedy has spread misinformation about the vaccine, interfered with CDC reporting, and presided over an agency that has lost up to one-third of its staff. Two-thirds of measles cases in Pennsylvania are now adults, and doctors are seeing congenital measles, something virtually unheard of before this outbreak. This is a public health emergency with a known cause and a known solution. Losing elimination status is not an abstraction. It means measles is endemic in the US, and Dr. Paul Offit of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia says we will see it year after year until vaccination rates recover. Kennedy's continued presence in this role is costing lives.