Shares of vaccine makers fell as President-elect Donald Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent vaccine skeptic, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Health policy experts have said a second Trump term could allow Kennedy to elevate anti-vaccine rhetoric.
Fox News host Jesse Watters reacts to President-elect Trump nominating big appointees at 'warp-speed' after choosing RFK, Jr to be his Health and Human Services secretary.
In a study of verified Twitter accounts from 2021, researchers found Kennedy’s personal Twitter account was the top “superspreader” of vaccine misinformation on Twitter,
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President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday announced his intention to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer and former independent presidential candidate, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
According to his 2021 book, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health, RFK Jr. believes that Fauci and Gates are members of a “vaccine cartel” trying to kill patients by denying them hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.
Alex Wagner looks at the radical views of Robert Kennedy, Jr. and the risk he poses to public health if he is confirmed as Donald Trump's new HHS secretary. Michelle Goldberg, columnist for the New York Times,
He wants vaccines subjected to the same scientific rigor as all the other medication,” Pinsky told NewsNation’s “On Balance.”
Trump nominated Kennedy for Secretary of Health and Human Services earlier in the day, a move that will likely rattle the public health community given Kennedy's long history of pushing anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and promoting medical treatments whose effectiveness has not been sufficiently proven.
Trump chose Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run Health and Human Services Department, which oversees NIH, CDC and FDA, among other agencies.
President-elect Donald Trump continued the work of building out his cabinet on Thursday. Trump announced his decision to nominate Robert F Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services Secretary.