Are you implying the CDC (part of PHS and itself part of HHS) has no authority to track and provide technical resources to combat measles outbreaks within individual states?
No, I'm asking what particular "rapid response" you would expect at this moment from a typical HHS secretary.
A declaration or official determination? Dispatching some kind of team? A press conference to assure the American public that they are aware and monitoring the situation closely?
I'll grant that is unlikely to happen with the kooks and crooks who just took office, but you've got to admit that--even in the best of times--a generic "reminder of the importance of" would be a timid and not-very-newsworthy type of "rapid response".
The the majority of the blame here lies on years of behavior by people and officials within Texas.
A declaration or official determination? Dispatching some kind of team? A press conference to assure the American public that they are aware and monitoring the situation closely?