ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. IS CLAIMING vindication in an ongoing controversy about a measles outbreak in Pennsylvania.

He shouldn’t be.

At the center of the controversy are two measles-related deaths that the state announced on August 25. Both were in Lancaster County, home to a large Amish population. The state didn’t immediately release more biographical details, but after the announcement Josh Shapiro, the state’s Democratic governor, held a press conference to warn about the public health threat and urge residents to vaccinate both themselves and their children.

At the briefing, Shapiro also talked about Kennedy—who, the governor said, had called to offer condolences and support. Shapiro said he conveyed his appreciation, while also expressing “blunt” criticism that the “actions and the rhetoric that [are] coming from this administration are having a negative impact on communities across America.”

That was a reference to the myriad ways the administration has undermined federal support for vaccination—like Kennedy posting misinformation on the official CDC website, and Donald Trump signing executive orders to roll back official childhood vaccination recommendations. The criticism did not sit well with Kennedy, who fired off tweets accusing Shapiro of taking “giddy delight in announcing two measles deaths” when the evidence was not yet clear.

It was even possible, Kennedy said, that the link between the deaths and measles may have been “fabricated by one of the Governor’s hopeful staffers.”

Kennedy at the time was drawing on some genuine ambiguity over what exactly had happened. The state hadn’t released ages or other biographical details. Meanwhile, the Lancaster County coroner said his office knew about one death—and only one death—of somebody with measles. But, the coroner said, it was an infant whose cause of death was actually a ruptured spleen.

Then, on Friday, the coroner announced his office had learned that another person who had measles had died. But in this case it was a six-week-old in palliative care for a congenital condition that is typically fatal within a few months—yet more proof, Kennedy tweeted, that Shapiro had “politicized these two tragic deaths before the underlying causes had been established.”

The charge sounded plausible: Even many Kennedy critics have questioned whether Shapiro acted too hastily, if only by publicizing the deaths before he could confirm all the facts and divulge more information.

But Shapiro and other state officials maintained all along the facts were on their side. And now it looks like