One of RFK Jr’s key advisors has petitioned the FDA to revoke their approval of the polio vaccine!
Seriously! Do you really want to TRY to bring back polio??
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/13/rfk-jr-aaron-siri-polio
I have always felt that the opinions of the nominee to head public health were dangerous. Like an actual danger to the public health of the American people.
Now 77 Nobel Prize winners have asked the Senate to reject Kennedy’s nomination!
“The letter, published Monday by the New York Times, said putting Kennedy in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees agencies handling food and drug safety, disease epidemics and health insurance would ‘put the public’s health in jeopardy.’
“The authors pointed to Kennedy’s opposition to the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and the polio vaccine. Kennedy is a leading proponent of the discredited theory that childhood vaccines cause autism. President-elect Trump said Sunday he would ask Kennedy to look into what is causing autism because ‘something is going on.'”
“Universal healthcare coverage in the U.S. would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives as well as hundreds of billions of dollars through the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new analysis.
“Researchers from the Yale School of Public Health and other institutions estimated that in 2020 alone, more than 131,000 COVID deaths and almost 78,000 excess non-COVID deaths would have been averted with broader nationwide coverage and saved the U.S. over $459 billion in 2020.”
Full study: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2200536119
Of all the insane picks Trump has made, this one has the greatest possibility of seriously hurting the American people, and right away, not just in the long term.
RFK Jr. has been nominated to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. That would mean he would oversee HHS, the CDC, the NIH, the FDA, and more.
Why is this a problem? Because RFK Jr. is totally unqualified, believes vaccines are dangerous and ineffective, and he has spread plenty of DEBUNKED conspiracy theories about vaccines and medicine in general. He is anti-science and anti-vax. He directly contradicts the science-based research of most scientists and medical experts. He said that chemicals in the water were turning children gay! 
And he claimed that COVID-19 was “ethnically targeted” to spare Jewish and Chinese people! 
He has already said he wants to fire 600 people in the National Institutes of Health. Regarding the CDC, Trump was bad enough, undermining their research and preventing them from saying what needed to be said. RFK Jr. would ruin the CDC.
“The mission of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is to enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services.”
RFK Jr. stands OPPOSITE this mission!
Here are a few quotes from people who understand:
“Robert F Kennedy Jr is a clear and present danger to the nation’s health. He shouldn’t be allowed in the building at the department of health and human services (HHS), let alone be placed in charge of the nation’s public health agency.”
“Donald Trump’s bungling of public health policy during the Covid pandemic cost hundreds of thousands of lives. By appointing Kennedy as his secretary of HHS, Trump is courting another, policy-driven public health catastrophe.”
“He’s a vaccine denier and a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist. He will destroy our public health infrastructure and our vaccine distribution systems. This is going to cost lives.”
“It is hard to overstate what a terrible decision this is. RFK Jr has no medical training. He is a hardcore anti-vaccine and misinformation peddler. The last time he meddled in a state’s medical affairs (Samoa), 83 children died of measles.”
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/14/trump-administration-rfk-criticisms
You think the first four years were a public health disaster?
If Trump and RFK Jr. do even half of what they’ve said they would, our country is definitely heading for serious public health problems!
They’ve already said they would limit and control the FDA and the CDC. Overall, this administration will definitely continue its work of undermining science and scientific regulatory authorities.
Source: “Get Ready for a Catastrophic Four Years for Public Health”
https://time.com/7174381/public-health-under-president-donald-trump-rfk-jr/
