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Sen. Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, chairs and is the face of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP). A physician, Cassidy has been a vocal advocate of vaccines and even ran a vaccination campaign in his home state. “After seeing patients die from vaccine preventable diseases,” Cassidy said in a speech, “I dedicated much of my time to vaccine research and immunization programs. ... Put simply, vaccines save lives.”
He also cast a key vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a fervent anti-vaccine advocate, as HHS secretary last year.
It’s not like Cassidy can claim ignorance of Kennedy’s track record. Cassidy and every other Republican who voted for Kennedy had all the information they needed to see that he would be a disaster for public health in the United States, from his decades-long crusade against vaccines to his history of fevered conspiracism. Cassidy acknowledged that he studied Kennedy’s record “exhaustively” and took his decision “very seriously.” According to Cassidy, Kennedy “has been insistent that he just wants good science to ensure safety” and claimed he would “work within the current vaccine approval and safety monitoring systems.” Cassidy said Kennedy also promised to “maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes” and that the CDC “will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.”
Kennedy has broken every single one of these promises.
Now that Kennedy is working to systematically dismantle America’s public health infrastructure from within, some of his enablers like Cassidy are horrified. But they have only themselves to blame. Meanwhile, the rest of us suffer the consequences of installing into our federal government’s top health position someone who isn’t merely unqualified but actively contemptuous of science and medicine.
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Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.
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