Providence, RI (AP) – A letter that was presented to the US Senate that it was sent, locked or blocked by doctors to support Robert F. Kennedy Kennedy Jr. as a secretary for health and human services provided with another discipline.
The letter should give Kennedy’s nomination credibility, which was exposed to strenuous opposition by medical experts due to its two decades of anti-Bach-activism. The Republican Senator Bill Cassidy from Louisiana, a doctor who boasts on his official website of the efforts to vaccinate 36,000 children against hepatitis B, hesitated the nomination of Kennedy and is considered a key vote.
The AP found that in addition to the doctors who were exposed to disciplinary measures, many of the almost 800 signatories are not doctors. The letter with the names of those who have signed was made available to the AP by Senator Ron Johnson’s office after entering two confirmation hearings in the congressions on Wednesday during the first of Kennedys.
Among those who had signed it were a self-described journalist, an auditor, a firefighter/paramedic, a certified health coach and someone who said they had a bachelor’s degree “with a focus on young psychology”. The signatories include at least 75 nurses and doctors. More than 90 did not contain any registration information at all.
Over 20 were chiropractors who represent an industry that Kennedy’s work has financed. An AP examination showed that donations of a chiropractic group represented a sixth of the income from Kennedy’s non-profit organization in 2019.
The letter was organized and submitted by Maha Action, which DEL BigTree, who worked for Kennedy’s presidential campaign and is a long-time anti-accin activist. The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that Kennedy had transferred the brand for the “Maha” slogan led by BigTree to a circumscribed liability company led by BigTree. Kennedy reported that he received an income of $ 100,000 for the licensing of the slogan, and said in his financial information that he had transferred the brand for “no compensation”.
Maha stands for “Make America Healthy”, a piece about President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again”.
Emma Post, a Maha -Action spokesman, said in an e -mail that the letter was “shared with explicit instructions organically and put in circulation in order to join in.” She did not address the questions of the AP which steps the group took to check login information if available.
Bigtree and Kennedy have not returned messages to find a comment. A spokesman for the White House, Kush Desai, said that the government is looking forward to Kennedy’s Senate quickly.
The letter contains the header “Doctors for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” and begins with the words: “We, the signed doctors.” He says that he “reflects the collective voice of doctors and medical experts”.
The AP’s review showed that at least 10 doctors who had signed the letter were directed in difficulties with state medical committees or their board certification authority for a variety of suspected misconduct. The sanctions with which they were confronted included that their license was revoked or suspended was based on probation, a reference or other measures. The Federal Trade Commission warning letter was received, in which he is illegal as treatments or prevention for COVID-19, including intravenous nutrient therapy and vitamins.
Among the signatories, Paul Thomas, an anti-Accacine doctor who voluntarily gave up his medical license in 2022 after Oregon’s medical board had found that he had repeated himself and committed to gross negligence in medical practice.
Thomas did not admit or denied the statement. NBC News reported that Thomas was part of a team compiled by Kennedy who advised an anti-access activist in Samoa during a measles outbreak to treat children from afar. A person who replied in the name of Thomas, Deedee Hoover, said the information that the AP had were misleading, but did not answer when he was asked what was specifically wrong.
Other signatories were Dr. Simone Gold, which was reprimanded by the Californian Medical Centive after she guilty on January 6, 2021 because of her behavior in the US Capitol. Gold was recently pardoned by Trump and told the AP in an e -mail that her reference and other disciplinary measures were lifted by a judge before her forgiveness.
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an honorable and truthful person with great knowledge and experiences that appreciate the health of the American people, and beyond because he is willing to question company interests where they are with the best interests of these citizens are in conflict. Gold wrote in an e -mail.
Meryl Nass, whose medical license in Maine was signed for the treatment of COVID 19 patients. She told the AP that she had made the decision and expected to be fully confirmed.
At least two of the doctors were disciplined before the pandemic because they had not properly spent vaccines, including one who had his license revoked, and one who was kept on probation. Another doctor’s license was revoked because he had refused to follow Covid-19 guidelines.
Post said that Maha Action letter was only one of several who supported the Senate Kennedy, including one that made it signed by a link to a connection that she had signed from “17,000 medical specialists”. In this letter he came from international medical providers and did not contain the names of those who had signed.
The nomination of opponents of Kennedy’s nomination sent her own letter with signatures, of which they said they were more than 18,000 “checked and verified” doctors. The group, the committee to protect health care, said that the letter had initially been distributed among verified doctors and that their login information was checked for additional signatures. The group gave the AP the list of signatories, but with anonymous names that contained the first initial of their first name together with the first three letters of their last name and their medical registration information. They said the names of the doctors were anonymized for their privacy and to protect them from harassment.
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