Defiant RFK Jr. questions vaccine data, defends record under bipartisan Senate grilling
The country’s health secretary and for a long time vaccine suspicious Robert F. Kennedy Jr. bilateral criticism On the changes he made to reorganize federal health agencies and vaccination policies, he told senators that they were determined to öyle eliminating politics from science ”.
In the testy view in front of the Senate Finance Committee, Kennedy repeatedly defended the record in heated stock exchanges with senators from both sides and questioned the data showing the effectiveness of vaccines. In contrast, the senators accused him of taking actions that contradicted his promise seven months ago.
“Secretary Kennedy, you promised to maintain the highest standard for vaccines. I have been deeply worried since then,” he said.
Kennedy forcibly rejected that he had limited access to vaccines and defended the recovery of confidence in federal health institutions under the umbrella of the US Ministry of Health and Human Services.
Kennedy, “they deserve the truth and we will give them the first time in the history of agency,” he said.
Since the beginning, the Democrats were expected to break Kennedy’s record. Some called him to resign and accused him of politicizing his decisions of Federal Health Policy. However, the other three Republican, including Senator Bill Cassidy from Louisiana, is the key to advancement of Kennedy’s candidacy. He joined the democrats who criticized Kennedy’s actionsMostly related to vaccination policy changes.
The session of Thursday was a two -party disappointment summit through a series of controversial decisions that put Kennedy’s department into turmoil. Kennedy rejected a advisory panel responsible for vaccination suggestions and replaced its members with known vaccine skeptics. He suffered a $ 500 million financing to develop vaccines against respiratory viruses. And last week, after disputes on vaccination policy, he overthrew the newly appointed manager of Disease Control and Prevention Centers.
Former CDC Director Susan Monarez, a former CDC director in an OP-ED on Thursday at The Wall Street Journal hardly After refusing to recommend an effective vaccine advisory panel to those who “explain the discourse of antivakcine”.
At the hearing, Kennedy said Monarez was lying. Instead, he said he fired him because he asked if he was reliable and said to him, “No.”
“He fired all members of the vaccine panel, because he was“ dealing with constant conflicts of interest ”.
“We departed him and put great scientists from a wide range of groups, very, very, Pro-Prro-Pro-Prro-Profine,” he said.
However, in the interrogation, the members of his party questioned the support he gave to vaccinations. At one point, Cassidy, a doctor, read an e-mail from a doctor friend who says that patients need a prescription to make COVİD-19 shooting Covid-19.
“I can effectively say that we deny people’s vaccines, Cass Cassidy said.
Uz You’re wrong, Ken Kennedy replied.
In the same stock exchange, Cassidy asked Kennedy whether he deserved the Nobel Prize for his work on the Warp speed operation, which is the attempt to increase the development of Covid-19 vaccine and treatments of President Trump’s administration.
“Absolutely, Ken Kennedy said.
Cassidy said he was surprised by Kennedy’s answer because he believed he was trying to restrict access to the Covid-19 vaccine. In addition, Kennedy’nin Cassidy’nin the key to the operation of the MRNA technology to develop vaccines to develop $ 500 million in the decision to cancel the decision to cancel.
Kennedy’s position on vaccines echoed beyond Capitol Hill.
Before the hearing, more than 1,000 employees in health agency and national health institutions He called Kennedy to resign. Apparently, Florida, which supports Kennedy’s direction, announced that it plans to be the first state to end all compulsory vaccines, including school children. And the state-California, led by three Democrats, created an alliance against turmoil within the Oregon-Federal Public Health Agency.
States, the focus of health alliances, the public’s safety and effectiveness of vaccines will be to access reliable information, he said.
As if it were almost parallel to a parallel universe, Kennedy said to the senators on Thursday, and after encountering for hours of vaccination policies, his goal was to get the same thing.
“If I can’t do it with a scientific certainty, I will not sign anything,” he said. “This doesn’t mean that I am antivax, it only means I’m pro -science.”
