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The Senate of USA approved the appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health in the second term of Donald Trump. His arrival at the Cabinet has caused a stir between Democrats and the scientific community for his anti -vacuum position.
RFK JR is the nephew of former president John F. Kennedy, and will now direct an apartment with more than 80,000 employees and a budget of US $ 1.7 billion.
His appointment as Secretary of Health of the United States occurs in a context where scientists warn that avian flu could trigger a pandemic, while vaccination rates in fall feed the fears that children’s diseases emerge.
In the last two decades Kennedy has promoted conspiracy theories that link children’s vaccines with the development of autism. In addition, he considered that Vaccines against COVID-19 were “the most mortal ever created” and questioned that germs cause infectious diseases. He also believes that school shootings are related to antidepressants.
The Democratic senators denounced possible conflicts of interest of Kennedy for having received fees lucrative as a lawyer consultant who demand pharmaceutical companies. He is also accused of inappropriate sexual behavior.
Kennedy JR launched an independent candidacy for the presidential 2024. In campaign he said that he has a parasitic worm in the brain or deposited a dead dwelling in Central Park (New York). He also used a chainsaw to decapitate a dead whale.
In that year, 77 Nobel Awards sent an open letter to the Senate to oppose their confirmation since it could “endanger public health.”
“He is a scary man, a dangerous man, and I think he will harm,” Paul offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center of the Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia said.
And nothing prevents Kennedy from discharging the Vaccine Advisory Committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which determines what vaccines should be covered by insurance, says Democrat Patty Murray.
Finally, Trump’s Secretary of Health has also promised to dismantle food and medication administration and suspend research on infectious diseases.
Source: Gestion
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