
US Secretary of Health and Human Services United States
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Medical-freedom populism in power: the CDC is captured, chronic disease is the real epidemic, Froot Loops are the enemy — and a Kennedy is wielding Trump's HHS as the wrecking ball.
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Pressed a plan for the NIH to spend $5 billion investigating a vaccine-autism link (dropped after NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya objected), wound down mRNA vaccine development, pulled US funding from international vaccine alliances, and had CDC web pages rewritten to cast doubt on vaccine-autism safety conclusions.
Cut the CDC childhood immunization schedule from 17 universally recommended vaccine-preventable diseases to 11, moving rotavirus, influenza, hepatitis A, hepatitis B and meningococcal shots to 'shared clinical decision-making' to mirror Denmark's leaner schedule.
Source: The Conversation ↗I asked her, 'Are you a trustworthy person?' And she said, 'No.'
Source: Al Jazeera ↗The rest of the record — every position, the goals behind them, and where a newer stance sits awkwardly with an older one — is on the details page.