RFK Jr.'s ignorant war on vaccines will make America sick again
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s mission to Make America Sick Again had a banner day fighting vaccines on Wednesday, when it was announced that the brain worm-having Trump appointee was not only pausing multimillion-dollar efforts to develop a new COVID-19 vaccine, but that the FDAs planning meeting for next flu season had been abruptly canceled.
While the HHS secretary didnt terminate the COVID project outright, he announced a 90-day stop-work order on it, alleging that former President Joe Bidens failed oversight during his presidency necessitated a review of ongoing vaccine production agreements.
Its unclear what might happen during that time to make Kennedy want to resume the program, but it seems that the HHS secretary is trying to impose his harmful anti-vaccine agenda on Americans, even if its to our detriment.
Meanwhile, when it comes to the panel of scientific experts who advise the Food and Drug Administration on vaccine policy, it seems as though Kennedy is using his newfound power in President Donald Trumps Cabinet to also bend federal health agencies to his will. As The New York Times reported, Kennedy has long been critical of the FDA, but, perhaps more worrisome, of any efforts to develop new, useful vaccines.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/27/2306585/-RFK-Jr-s-ignorant-war-on-vaccines-will-make-America-sick-again
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The Wizard
(13,141 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(27,771 posts)Unless this administration actively stops manufacturing and distributing all vaccines, everyone is NOT going to stop getting any vaccines whatsoever.
The other thing this sort of scare-mongering ignores is that herd immunity is a real thing. Yeah, more people may start getting flu, but hardly everyone in the country. Yes, people will die. People always die every year from flu. Meanwhile, remind me the last time population numbers dropped in this country from illness.
Personally, I'm a lot more bothered by