The secretary for health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Washington – The Secretary for Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy, who was confirmed at the beginning of this year at a most party service lesson, repeatedly justified to relieve all of an influential vaccine advisory body and the president Decision to remove A center for the control and prevention of diseases and prevention, which had served less than a month after confirmation of the Senate.
“In their confirmation hearings, they promised to maintain the highest standards for vaccines. Since then I have been deeply concerned,” said the majority of the Senate majority John Barrasso, R-WYO. “The public has seen measles outbursts. Leadership of the National Institutes of Health in question of using mRNA vaccines. The recently confirmed director of the centers for the control and prevention of illnesses. The Americans do not know who to rely on.”
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Barrasso, an orthopedic surgeon, tried to strengthen the support of vaccines for Kennedy during the hearing of the Senate Financing Committee, and an estimated 154 million lives are saved worldwide.
The Republican Senator of Louisiana, Bill Cassidy, a doctor who received several concessions from Kennedy to confirm him as HHS secretary, raised numerous questions about Kennedy’s behavior. Cassidy is the chairman of the Health Committee, Education, Labor and Pension Committee.
Cassidy seemed to box in Kennedy in Kennedy in Kennedy by saying that President Donald Trump should receive the Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed, which led to the development of the shot during his first term.
Kennedy agreed that Trump should “get the price” the price of what Cassidy questioned, why he had taken measures as HHS Secretary to undermine the trust and to eliminate the financing of activities for the development of vaccine.
“It surprises me that they think so high from the Operation Warp speed when they tried to restrict access as a lawyer,” said Cassidy. “It also surprises me because they canceled or HHS, but apparently under their leadership 500 million US dollars contracts with the MRNA vaccine platform, which was of crucial importance for the Warp speed.”
Cassidy said that the cancellation is not only “an incredible waste of money, but also a comment about what the President did in the Operation Warp Speed to create a platform with which vaccines can be created”.
Cassidy also questioned Kennedy’s actions in which everyone in the CDC’s consulting committee eliminates immunization practices and replaced them by his own decisions.
“If we humans use the paid witnesses for people who sue vaccines, this actually seems to be a conflict of interest,” said Cassidy.
Kennedy disagreed and testified that “it can be a bias. And this bias is in order if it is disclosed.”
Tillis asks RFK Jr.
The Republican Senator of North Carolina, Thom Tillis, asked Kennedy a number of questions, but said he wanted the secretary to submit his answers in writing to clarify some of his positions.
“Some of their statements seem to contradict what they said in the previous hearing,” said Tillis. “You said you will enable the scientists to do your job at HHS. I would like to see evidence where you did, and I am sure that you will have some.”
Tillis said he wanted Kennedy to answer reports that he had declined his obligations towards senators, not doing anything “what makes it difficult or people from taking vaccines” and that Kennedy would not impose my belief from them.
“This seems contradictory to the dismissal of the CDC director, the cancellation of mRNA research contracts, the dismissal of advisory board members, the attempt to follow NIH financing, and the financing for half a billion dollar for further mRNA research.
Tillis said he had difficulty understanding why the former CDC director Susan Monarez, whom Trump voted in March and the Senate at the end of July, was released so quickly.
“I don’t see how you go … from an expert in public health with unsatisfactory scientific testimonies, a long-time advocate of Maha values, caring and compassionate and brilliant microbiologist and four weeks later you will fire her,” said Tillis.
CDC shooting, Monarez fired examined
The Democratic Senator of Georgia, Raphael Warnock A shootout in the agency based in Atlanta this summer.
Kennedy said that he did not think he criticized Monarez during a meeting at the end of August because of her comments after the CDC shooting that “misinformation could be dangerous”.
During this meeting, Kennedy said that he demanded that the CDC scientists from Monarez Fire Career say that he had not told her that she should accept the recommendations of the vaccine advisory committee without further review.
“What I asked her was, she had made an explanation that she would not register and I wanted to clarify it,” said Kennedy. “I told her I didn’t want her to play a role if she didn’t want to register.”
Monarez wrote a and on-ed Published in the Wall Street Journal just a few hours before the hearing begins that during the meeting with Kennedy “the recommendations of a vaccine advisory committee that is re -filled with people who publicly express rhetoric in advance.”
“The next meeting of this body is planned for September 18 to 19,” wrote Monarez. “It is absolutely necessary that the recommendations of the panel are not rubberized, but strictly and scientifically checked before they are accepted or rejected.”
Warnock asked Kennedy if he said that the CDC was the “most corrupt federal authority in the history of the world”.
Kennedy said he didn’t say that exactly, but said: “It is the most corrupt agency at HHS and maybe the government.”
Warnock concluded his five minutes of questions that Kennedy said: “It is clear that they carry out their extremist beliefs” and that he is “a threat to the public health of the American people”.
“For the first time, we see children’s deaths on measles,” said Warnock. “We haven’t seen that for two decades. We see that under their clock. They are a danger to the health of the American people.”
Lankford, Daine’s questions about the abortion of medication
Several senators, including the Oklahoma Republican James Lankford and the Republican of Montana, Steve Daines, asked Kennedy after the ongoing review of Mifepriston, one of two prescription pharmaceuticals used in the abortion of medication.
Kennedy said that with the FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, he only talked about the topic yesterday and committed to keeping the senators up to date, but didn’t seem to know much more.
“I don’t know if you will do an insurance study. This is a way to do this. I don’t know exactly whether you are doing epidemiological studies or observation studies. I don’t know exactly what you are doing,” said Kennedy. “But I know that I talked to Marty Makary about it yesterday, and he said that these studies are progressing and that they went on. Therefore I will keep your office up to date in every phase.”
Kennedy said that he didn’t know exactly when studying would be completed.
The FDA first approved Mifepristone in 2000 before updating the prescription guidelines in 2016 and during the Coronavirus pandemic.
It is currently approved for pregnancy of up to 10 weeks and can be prescribed via telemedicine and sent to patients. Mifepriston is the first pharmaceutical for the abortion of medication and typically follows Misoprostol.
Around 64% of all abortions in 2023 made it out, as raucous Research From the Guttmacher Institute.
The Supreme Court declined an effort Restriction of access to medication abbreviations in the past year in a case submitted by four anti-abdominal medical organizations and four anti-aborted doctors, which were represented by the freedom of the alliances.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh wrote the opinion that “Confederation has been protected by the federal government since Mifepriston’s approval in 2000.”
Numerous medical organizations, including the American College of obstetricians and gynecologists and the American Medical Association, wrote letter In this case, the security and effectiveness of Mifepriston in the Supreme Court.
“The scientific knowledge is overwhelming: In less than 0.32% of the patients, important undesirable events occur,” wrote the medical organizations. “The risk of death almost does not exist.”
