There’s no love lost between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the rest of the famous political clan, so it’s not surprising that Jack Schlossberg, the son of Caroline Kennedy, thinks RFK could be doing a lot more to counter a deadly measles outbreak in Texas.
Schlossberg addresses RFK Jr’s wife, actress Cheryl Hines, in an Instagram video posted Thursday, asking her to say she’s sorry for how her husband — who is an outspoken opponent of vaccines — is running the country’s response as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
“Hey Cheryl Hines, it’s Jack Schlossberg,” he says in a video taken just after he got out of the shower. “We’ve never met, but I’ve got a favor to ask. I need you to call up the family of the child who died of measles, and say, ‘Sorry.’ Can you do that for me, babe?”
Schlossberg, who has been a political correspondent for Vogue magazine since 2024, added, “Almost every single case of measles is in someone who’s not vaccinated,” Schlossberg continued. “I think you’re the perfect person to say sorry.”
The death he’s referring to was that of an unvaccinated school-aged child, who was the first to die of the disease in an ongoing measles outbreak in Texas.
Kennedy’s immediate response when the news broke on Feb. 26 was to tell reporters that it was “not unusual” and that this kind of thing happens in the U.S. “every year.” The CDC quickly pointed out that measles had been officially eliminated in 2000 thanks to widely available vaccines.
On March 2, Kennedy backtracked on his stance, writing in a Fox News essay that he is “deeply concerned” about the outbreak and is now recommending people get the MMR vaccine. He is, however, still pushing non-scientific remedies such as cod liver oil.
Hines previously criticized her husband went so far as to compare public sentiment against anti-vaxxers to the kind of persecution that Jews like Anne Frank suffered in World War II.
Hines is best known for her role as the wife of Larry David’s character on “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
In his video, Schlossberg misspelled her last name as “Heins.”
