This story was originally reported by Barbara Rodriguez of The 19th. In mid-March, the parents of a 6-year-old girl in Texas who died of measles complications — the first measles-related child death in the United States in more than 20 years — decided to speak out about what happened to their daughter.

On four separate occasions, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health and Human Services secretary, has suggested that the measles outbreak in Texas, which is now over 500 cases, is beginning to subside and grow more slowly.

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