'A lot of Americans are going to die' because of RFK Jr. [View all]

By Froma Harrop / Creators.com

Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Republican from Louisiana, is also a doctor. He put up resistance last February to Donald Trump’s choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “Bobby,” as Trump likes to call him, has long cast doubts on the safety of vaccines that have saved millions from death or serious disease while causing almost no problems.

Kennedy is an ignoramus on such matters and has a few loose screws besides. But Cassidy ultimately gave in, presumably to escape MAGA’s wrath. He gave Kennedy the deciding vote for confirmation.

Cassidy is back, however. As leader of the Senate’s health committee, he tried but failed to delay a committee meeting to consider RFK Jr.’s nutty move to fire all 17 members of the panel that advises on the use of vaccines in the United States. Kennedy’s eight replacements, Cassidy wrote, “do not have significant experience studying microbiology, epidemiology or immunology.” Another concern was that a director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which takes guidance from the panel, had not yet been put in place.

Kennedy’s manipulative line is that “a clean sweep is needed to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science”; a confidence that he and fellow crackpots have done their best to undermine with junk science. Kennedy has falsely accused the fired experts of having conflicts of interest with companies developing vaccines. That problem does not exist because of stringent oversight.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/harrop-a-lot-of-americans-are-going-to-die-because-of-rfk-jr/