Washington (AP) – to earn the vote he needed to become the highest health officer of the nation, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a special promise: he would not change the nation’s current vaccination schedule.
On Tuesday, he spoke for the first time with thousands of employees of the health and human services Agency and Schwor to examine the vaccination plan for children, which prevents measles, polio and other perilous diseases.
“Nothing will be limited,” said Kennedy, adding that pesticides, foods, microplastics, antidepressants and electromagnetic waves are also examined, which are emitted by cell phones and microwaves.
Kennedy’s statements that were distributed on social media were awarded during a welcome ceremony for the recent health secretary of the agency’s headquarters in Washington as a measles outbreak among most non -vaccinated people in West texas. The event took place after a weekend with mass shot of thousands of HHS employees. Further layoffs are expected.
In his comments on Tuesday, Kennedy promised that a recent Commission for “Make America Healthy” would examine vaccines, pesticides and antidepressants in order to see whether they have contributed to an enhance in chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity that plagued the American public . The commission was founded last week in an executive order by Donald Trump immediately after the suspension of Kennedy as the recent health minister of the President.
This directive said that the Commission would consist of cabinet members and other administration officials and will develop a strategy for children’s health within the next six months. Kennedy said that problems would investigate, including vaccinations in childhood, which “were officially taboo or insufficiently checked”.
While Kennedy did not directly change changes to the vaccination plan on Tuesday, his plan to investigate questions about his commitment to the Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, a doctor in Louisiana, which corresponds to deep concerns about the interests of the health secretian of the health secretian. Cassidy finally voted to send Kennedy’s nomination to the Senate after saying that Kennedy had given him the assurance that he would not change the federal vaccination plan.
“Science is good on this topic, science is credible,” said Cassidy during a speech in the Senate at the beginning of this month and explained his voice. “Vaccines save life. They are safe.”
Rigorous studies in thousands of people who have followed the real world of decades have shown that the vaccines approved by the Food and Drug Administration for children and adults prevent both children and adults safely and effectively.
During his speech in the Senate last month, Cassidy said that Kennedy had made a number of promises that came from “intensive conversations” to receive his support. In particular, Cassidy said Kennedy “would maintain the recommendations of centers for the control and prevention of diseases and prevention in order to receive the recommendations of immunization practices. Without changes.”
These recommendations operate children across the country to determine the safest and most effective age in which children can offer vaccinations. The committee meets every year to check the latest data on ancient and recent vaccines to ensure that there are no red flags for security or other problems before the publication of its annual schedule.
When Cassidy’s office was contacted by Kennedy’s statements, he did not comment.
Kennedy received a faithful followers for its non-profit organization by increasing objections to Covid-19 protocols and doubts about the Covid 19 vaccine. Despite his work, Kennedy repeated the senators repeatedly that during his hearing of confirmation he was not “against Accacine”.
Dr. Paul Offit, an expert for infectious diseases at the children’s hospital in Philadelphia, which is located in a federal vaccine panel, did not believe him.
“I think he’ll do everything he can to make vaccines less available and less affordable because he is an anti-access activist,” said Offit, who developed the Rotavirus vaccine that is on the Schedule for the immunization of the CDC Childhood is in childhood last week.
Kennedy promised the employees on Tuesday during his speech that he would remain open in his recent job and asked her to return the favor.
“If I read these articles that characterized me, I wouldn’t want to work for this guy either,” said Kennedy and triggered some laughs from the crowd. “Let’s start a relationship by let go of preconceived perceptions that you have from me.”
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Matthew Perrone and Lauran Neergaard in Washington attached them to this report.
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