Concerns anti-vaccine pick for US health secretary could pursue ‘anti-science positions’ on life-saving interventions

Summary

The nomination of anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as U.S. health secretary under Donald Trump has alarmed global health experts, who fear it could undermine vaccination efforts and public health globally.

Kennedy has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation, which critics warn could reduce immunization rates, risking outbreaks of preventable diseases like measles.

His plans to reform U.S. health agencies and tackle “corruption” could disrupt institutions like the FDA, while Trump’s broader policies may include withdrawing from the WHO and reinstating abortion funding bans.

Concerns also extend to potential trade wars affecting medicine supplies.

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    8 months ago

    the guy endorses raw milk on a time when non infectious avian flu viral particles are found in pasteurised supermarket milk. he is the walking embodiment of disaster.

  • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
    68·
    8 months ago

    Dear Trump voters:

    Congratulations. You just destroyed our Department of Health. You realize this is just as likely to kill you as us right? Probably even more so because we will be on our guard.

    • FatCrab@lemmy.oneEnglish
      16·
      8 months ago

      They’re basically the stupidest part of our population. I don’t think they’ll ever understand the connection between their idiotic voting behavior and the consequences of those choices. Remember–they’re fucking morons.

    • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      8 months ago

      did you ask if Republican voters realize something? realization requires using your brain, something that would’ve prevented them from voting Republican in the first place

  • Cargon@lemmy.mlEnglish
    18·
    8 months ago

    I’d like to fit in with this new America I’ve found myself in. What’s the best way to spread polio to these people who so desperately desire it?

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    8 months ago

    It’s pretty simple really. How about foreign countries don’t let unvaxxed people in. Not for vacations, not for business, not for anything. U.S. wants to be morons, let them be morons inside their own borders.

  • wurzelgummidge@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    8 months ago

    Well at least you won’t have to waste money on expensive bombs and stuff. Just give the money to your oligarchs and send your troops off to breath on the enemy.

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
      16·
      8 months ago

      With the guy that’s going to be defense secretary saying “I don’t see germs, so they aren’t real” maybe it could be the opposite.

      I don’t also see ionizing radiations, so they definitely aren’t real, maybe let him taste some polonium tea

      Also the irony of a Christian fundamentalist saying that because something can’t be seen, then it can’t be real

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    5·
    8 months ago

    Only if the rest of the world lets them be influenced by the US. If major powers like the EU do, then it’s their own fault.

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    He will get forced out before anything gets too bad. There’s way too much money involved in many of the things he wants to change for corporations to just take it.

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    The Biden admin withheld dairy contamination data to protect dairy farmers, and let the CEO of Delta set Covid isolation guidelines to meet his workforce needs.

    The health institutions are already fucked.