RFK's health policies on vaccines and fluoride in public water could exacerbate health disparities across America.
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump shake hands during a campaign rally at Desert Diamond Arena on August 23, 2024 in Glendale, Arizona. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will likely have a tremendous impact on public health in America for the next four years, given his nomination to serve as the Secretary of Health and Human Services under president-elect Donald Trump. The president-elect has said he would let Kennedy “go wild on health.
RFK is a known vaccine skeptic and has repeatedly claimed childhood vaccines can lead to autism. This association has not been proved to be true based onwhich have already declined in the last several years due to misinformation, vaccine hesitancy and access issues will likely get worse if RFK continues to cast doubt on their efficacy.
Many if not all of these cases could be prevented with childhood vaccinations and with herd immunity. Herd immunity refers to the protection conferred upon a population against contagious diseases when a certain percentage of a population is protected against a disease through vaccination or prior exposure. For measles, this requires a vaccination rate of 95%.
In addition, patients with compromised immune function like those with HIV or cancer patients will also be affected by decreasing herd immunity, because their bodies may not mount an appropriate immune response to vaccines even if they are vaccinated. This means that as vaccination rates for certain diseases fall in America, these patients will suffer most because they are more likely to get infected and even hospitalized as diseases spread.
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