The Infectious Disease Society of America says there have been “no deaths related to the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine in healthy individuals.” (Since the 1970s, the measles vaccine has been given in a combination shot with mumps and rubella to minimize the number of injections kids get.)

He also baselessly claimed that natural immunity from measles and other diseases could protect people from cancer and cardiac disease.

Social media lit up with fury Monday night in response to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggesting that diet may be to blame for a Texas child’s death of measles. “It’s very,