Public Health Experts Groan as RFK Jr. Pitches Vaccines as 'Personal Choice'
Vaccines are most effective at scale when enough people get them to provide "herd immunity" from a virus, doctors and officials say.
Public Health Experts Alarmed at Trump’s Pick of RFK Jr. to Lead HHS
One compares Kennedy being considered to “having somebody who doesn’t believe in gravity being the head of NASA.”
Scientists fear what’s next for public health if RFK Jr. is allowed to ‘go wild’
Trump has promised he would allow Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to "go wild" on medicines, food, and health. With that, a radical antiestablishment medical movement with roots in past centuries could threaten the achievements of a science-based public health order painstakingly built since World War II, some of these scientists fear.
Can RFK Jr. Fix Our Dysfunctional Public Health Agencies?
The CDC, the FDA, and the NIH have long needed drastic reform. But is putting Robert Kennedy Jr. in charge of HHS the right way to fix them?
Trump picks RFK Jr., anti-vaccine activist, for health and human services secretary
President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist who dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Trump, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
Here’s how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised to remake the nation’s top health agencies
WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and environmentalist, for years gained a loyal and fierce following with his biting condemnations of how the nation’s public health agencies do business.
Public health group says RFK Jr 'absolutely wrong guy' to lead top US agency
The head of the largest organisation of public health professionals in the US says it will "absolutely oppose" RFK Jr's nomination as the next US health secretary.
Scientists fear what’s next for public health if RFK Jr. is able to ‘go wild’
Many scientists at the federal health agencies await the second Donald Trump administration with dread as well as uncertainty over how the president-elect will reconcile starkly different philosophies among the leaders of his team.
Live updates: Trump selects RFK Jr. as health secretary; taps his defense attorneys for DOJ spots
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What to Know About Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's Pick for Health Secretary
President-elect Donald Trump has picked a prominent vaccine skeptic to lead the nation’s sprawling public health apparatus
Drugmaker shares fall as Trump picks vaccine sceptic RFK Jr for US health job
Shares in global vaccine makers and drugmakers fell on Friday after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has previously spread misinformation on vaccines, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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