WashingtonDonald Trump has made official his decision to hand over control of “public health agencies” to independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy. In a post on Truth Social this Thursday, the president-elect announced that Kennedy will be secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). “Kennedy will return these agencies to the traditions of high-level scientific research and to be standards of transparency to end the epidemic of chronic diseases and to make America great and healthy again,” said the magnate. During the pandemic, Kennedy became famous for his campaign against covid vaccines.
Although the nephew of President John F. Kennedy has denied the anti-vaccine label, in December 2021 he participated in a conference organized in California where he advocated against the use of covid vaccines. “It is criminal medical malpractice to administer one of these vaccines to a child,” Kennedy said, according to a video of the event, one of his many claims that ignored or went against the legal, scientific and health consensus. public
Kennedy will now oversee the Health Department, which oversees the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health and the vast Medicare and Medicaid services programs. , which provide health coverage to people with low incomes, people over 65 and people with disabilities.
The Food and Drug Administration is the body responsible for approving whether a medicine goes on the market, including vaccines, as well as ensuring food safety. It was this agency that was responsible for supervising and authorizing vaccines against covid. Kennedy suggested that he would dismantle it if he were in charge of the Department of Health, as well as ensuring that he would replace hundreds of workers at the National Institutes of Health. “If you work for the FDA and are part of this corrupt system, I have two messages for you: 1. Preserve your records, and 2. Pack your bags,” he wrote on the X platform in October.
In recent weeks, Kennedy has campaigned on the X platform saying his priorities as head of the Health Department would be to address what he calls the “epidemic of chronic diseases,” such as obesity, diabetes and autism , and reduce chemicals in food. Shortly before the election he also claimed that he would recommend eliminating fluoride from public water supplies and falsely claimed that it causes bone fractures and cancer.
Fluoride is a mineral added to drinking water to prevent tooth decay and, according to the American Dental Association, helps reduce tooth decay by more than 25% in adults and children. The amount used is regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, in English).
In 2023, faced with rejection by the Democratic Party to which his family has always been linked, Kennedy decided to run as an independent candidate in this year’s presidential elections. In late August, after the Democratic Convention in Chicago ended, Kennedy announced that he was withdrawing from the race and giving his support to Trump. Since then, the alliance has been renamed Make America Healthy Again (MAHA), for the supposed public health campaign that Kennedy wants to lead.
Beyond the conspiracy theories against vaccines, in July Kennedy starred in a media scandal with the leak of a recording in which he claimed that the coronavirus was “ethnically targeted” to save the Jews and the Chinese. A month earlier, he had participated in conservative Joe Rogan’s podcast, one of the most listened to in the country, and assured that Wi-Fi waves prove cancer and “brain leaks”.
In the summer he was also the protagonist of a scandal after it was revealed that he had maintained a “digital” love relationship with the magazine’s journalist New York MagazineOlivia Nuzzi, despite being married to Cheryl Hines. The political reporter left her job and broke up with her partner, whom they were going to marry. In Kennedy’s case, he remains married to Hines.
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