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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico passes 250 cases as the nation's health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to hedge on vaccinations.

Meantime, an appeals court in New York upholds the state legislature's decision to end a school

immunization exemption for religious beliefs, though this could go next to the Supreme Court.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We're joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassel, and Alicia Finley.

The Texas Health Department's update on Tuesday morning says that 223 cases of measles have now been identified there since late January, with another 30 across the border in New Mexico.

That includes about 29 people who have been hospitalized and one fatality in a school-aged child.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is on the ground there, and Health and Human

Services Secretary RFK Jr. has said that he wants to make vaccines available for all who

want them.

What I haven't seen him say yet is that the MMR shot for measles, mumps,

and rebella is safe and effective, and he recommends it. He continues to say things like

good nutrition is a best defense. Here he is in a Fox interview last week. They have treated

most of the patients, actually, over 108 patients in the last 48 hours,

and they're getting very, very good results.

They report from Budesinide, which is a steroid.

It's a 30-year-old steroid. And clarithromycin and also cod liver oil, which has high concentrations of vitamin A and vitamin D. And they're seeing what they describe as almost miraculous and instantaneous recovery from that.

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