“You have a kind of convergence of some commercial interests, you know, something that you can sell to people, and then also this real desire to change the way we do things,” she said.
Britain’s King Charles III, patron of the Royal Horticultural Society, and Queen Camilla visit the Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday May 19, 2025. (Toby Melville/Pool via AP)Britain’s King Charles III, patron of the Royal Horticultural Society, and Queen Camilla visit the Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday May 19, 2025. (Toby Melville/Pool via AP)
Catherine’s Rose by Harkness Roses named after Britain’s Princess of Wales on display at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)Catherine’s Rose by Harkness Roses named after Britain’s Princess of Wales on display at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)British actress Joanna Lumley is photographed at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
British actress Joanna Lumley is photographed at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)Drag artist Ula Lah performs as Mother Nature at the Babylon Beat indoor Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Drag artist Ula Lah performs as Mother Nature at the Babylon Beat indoor Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Chelsea Pensioners Jack McCabe, left, and Tony Manley, right, look at the hat worn by Claire Myers-Lamptey designed by Mathew Eluwande for Nature Recovery, for communities to embrace re-wilding at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)KENNEDY, in a CBS interview posted April 9, discussing death of 8-year-old child in Texas who had measles: “The thing that killed (her) was not the measles, but it was a bacteriological infection.”
THE FACTS: Two children in Texas have died — both from measles complications, according to the Texas State Department of Health and Human Services. The state health department has made clear that the children were not vaccinated and had no underlying conditions. Doctors at University Medical Center in Lubbock who treated the 8-year-old said she died of “measles pulmonary failure.”Claiming that patients die of complications and not the actual disease that led to them is a tactic that anti-vaccine advocates have used to undermine Texas health experts since the first child died of measles in March — and in other outbreaks before that. It’s also a talking point that Kennedy, who spent
as one of the world’s leading anti-vaccine activists,Measles complications can include pneumonia, brain swelling and other respiratory or neurological complications, which can lead to death in 1 to 3 of every 1,000 children who are infected, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.