Trump's health picks may pose greatest threat to U.S.
By Carl P. Leubsdorf / The Dallas Morning News
Donald Trump’s more controversial personnel choices have prompted fears that Tulsi Gabbard would compromise intelligence operations and Pam Bondi and Kash Patel would target political enemies over dangerous criminals.
But the nominees who may ultimately pose the greatest long-term danger to the well-being of Americans are Trump’s choices to head agencies intended to protect their health: Health and Human Services Secretary-designate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his picks to run the Centers for Disease Control, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health.
Kennedy has gained a well-deserved reputation as a vaccination critic, though his record is more complicated than that. In a 2023 Fox News interview, he said, “I do believe that autism does come from vaccines.” And in a 2023 podcast, he said “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.”
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One instance his critics cite is his possible role in exacerbating a 2019 measles outbreak in Samoa, which followed a well-publicized visit, in which he met with anti-vaccine advocates, and a subsequent letter to Samoan health officials in which he suggested the measles vaccine may have been responsible.
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