Quotes
Well, I guess I’m about to give you the last two vaccines of your life.”
Mystal
And obviously, you know, a lot of people are talking about vaccines for children with respect to autism,
Trump added
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RFK Jr. poses a danger to public health, scientific research, medicine, and health care coverage for millions,
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, added in a post to X ThursdayThey have to get the shot,
Trump told reporters in April 2019 from the White House drivewayIn Donald Trump's America, an unscrupulous, unserious, and unqualified anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist will control millions of families' healthcare choices,
Democratic Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, of New York, posted to X following Kennedy's nominationThe left is now rationing lifesaving therapeutics based on race, discriminating against and denigrating...white people to determine who lives and who dies,
Trump said in part, per a report from the Associated PressI am totally in favor of vaccines,
he added in his answerMassive combined inoculations to small children is the cause for big increase in autism.
In a post to X (then known as Twitter) in August 2012, Trump wroteAutism has become an epidemic,
Trump said
The fact that we’re considering bringing somebody on with no scientific or medical credentials, who’s falsely claimed for decades of vaccines caused autism, who has, quite frankly, said just outrageous comments about science and medicine that this person would come in to gut the NIH, I think is shameful,
Rep Robert Garcia of California said
RFK Jr. has championed issues like healthy foods and the need for greater transparency in our public health infrastructure,
Cassidy said in a news statement
There’s no downstream liability, there’s no front end safety testing, that saves them a quarter-billion dollars,
Kennedy said at a campaign speech at Hillsdale CollegeHe wants to do some things, and we’re going to let him get to it,
Trump said of Kennedy in his election victory speechMr Kennedy will restore these agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!”
Trump said in his statement
He’s going to help make America healthy again,
Trump said in his victory speech on November 6.We need to act fast, and we want to have those people in place on Jan 20, so that on Jan 21, 600 people are going to walk into offices at NIH and 600 people are going to leave,
Kennedy said, according to a video of his remarks posted on YouTube
Robert F Kennedy Jr is a clear and present danger to the nation’s health. He shouldn’t be allowed in the building at the department of health and human services (HHS), let alone be placed in charge of the nation’s public health agency.”
In response to Kennedy’s nomination, Public Citizen, a progressive nonprofit organization focusing on consumer advocacy, said
It is hard to overstate what a terrible decision this is. RFK Jr has no medical training. He is a hardcore anti-vaccine and misinformation peddler. The last time he meddled in a state’s medical affairs (Samoa), 83 children died of measles.”
Alastair McAlpine, a pediatric physician at British Columbia’s children’s hospital, wroteHe’s a vaccine denier and a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist. He will destroy our public health infrastructure and our vaccine distribution systems. This is going to cost lives.”
California’s Democratic representative Robert Garcia called the nomination “fucking insane”, writing on XDonald Trump’s bungling of public health policy during the Covid pandemic cost hundreds of thousands of lives. By appointing Kennedy as his secretary of HHS, Trump is courting another, policy-driven public health catastrophe,
the organization added