Two medical experts propose key questions for senators to ask Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his Senate confirmation hearings for Secretary of Health and Human Services.
As America faces the Senate confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of health and human services , medical experts have questions they want senators at the hearings to ask. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a campaign event alongside Donald Trump in Glendale, Ariz., on Aug. 23. In advance of Senate hearings to confirm him as President-elect Trump's choice to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, two medical experts outline six topics senators should ask of Kennedy.
America faces the Senate confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of health and human services. He would then become the de facto leader of the nation’s public health efforts. To better judge how to vote, we — a professor of microbiology and immunology and a professor of medicine — would like to hear senators ask Kennedy the following questions: a devastating measles outbreak occurred, killing over 80 Samoans. any connection to this tragedy. Do you accept responsibility for your part in these avoidable deaths and injuries, and if not, why not? vaccine refusal rates were higher in counties that voted for Donald Trump in 2020, driving the greater rate of fatal COVID infections in those counties. Vaccine rejection was correlated with consumingfrom that misinformation. Will you publicly apologize to the relatives of those who listened to the vaccine misinformation you spread and succumbed to largely avoidable deaths because of it?God bless you all. Thank you for public service. We’re going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years.,” which is about a hundred-fold more than we saw with the COVID viru
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