Dr. Green is the governor of Hawaii. In early December 2019, I called Faimalotoa Kika Stowers, the health minister of Samoa. The measles outbreak that began earlier that fall on her small Pacific island nation had spread out of control and become an epidemic that threatened to overwhelm the country.

The Senate is poised to make “an absolute life-or-death decision” in confirming Kennedy as HHS secretary, warned Gov. Josh Green, who is also a physician.

Hawaii Gov. Josh Green, an emergency room physician, visited Samoa in 2019 to care for those sick with measles and to vaccinate people.

WASHINGTON — Hawaii Gov. Josh Green (D ... campaign that Green said led to dozens of children dying in Samoa amid a measles outbreak. “This is an absolute life-or-death decision that the ...