WashingtonDonald Trump has made official his decision to hand over control of “public health agencies” to independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy. In a post on Truth Social this Thursday, the president-elect announced that Kennedy will be secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). “Kennedy will restore these agencies to the traditions of high-level scientific research and be standards of transparency to end the epidemic of chronic diseases and to make America great and healthy again,” the tycoon said. During the pandemic, Kennedy became famous for his campaign against covid vaccines.
Although the nephew of President John F. Kennedy has denied the label, in December 2021 he participated in a conference organized in California where he advocated against the use of covid vaccines. “It is criminal medical malpractice to administer one of these vaccines to a child,” Kennedy said, according to a video of the event, one of his many claims that ignored or went against the legal, scientific and health consensus. public Kennedy will now oversee the Department of Health, which oversees the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and major Medicare and Medicaid services programs. Medicaid, which provide health coverage for people with low incomes, people over age 65, and people with disabilities.
The Food and Drug Administration is the body responsible for approving whether a drug goes on the market, including vaccines, as well as ensuring food safety. It was this agency that was responsible for supervising and authorizing covid vaccines. Kennedy suggested the idea of dismantling it once you were in charge of the Department of Health, as well as ensuring that it would replace hundreds of workers at the National Institutes of Health.
Kennedy’s inclusion in Trump’s orbit has been one of the many surprises of this campaign. Initially, Kennedy had tried to push an independent candidacy, starring in some of the most famous moments of the electoral race, such as the day when he claimed that a worm had eaten part of his brain. Just the day after the Democratic Convention ended, Kennedy announced that he was supporting Trump and joining forces with him. Since then, the alliance has been renamed Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) because of the supposed public health campaign that Kennedy wants to lead.
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