Over 19,000 Physicians Oppose Confirming Kennedy

Radiology Business reports:

President-elect Donald J. Trump first announced his HHS selection in November, with Kennedy slated to serve as the commander in chief’s principal advisor on all health matters. However, the Committee to Protect Health Care, a national advocacy organization, is now pushing lawmakers to derail his confirmation.

The group had garnered signatures from more than 19,000 physicians as of Sunday, including hundreds of radiologists. They labeled RFK’s appointment as an “affront to the principles of public health,” noting the environmental lawyer’s “decades of spreading dangerous disinformation” and “promoting conspiracy theories.”

The letter writers cited a 2019 RFK trip to Samoa as proof of their concerns. Kennedy at the time amplified doubts about the safety of measles vaccines. After his visit, physicians wrote, vaccination rates fell from 60% to 31%, “sparking a measles outbreak that killed 83 people—most of them under the age of 5.”

Read the full article. Senate confirmation hearings begin tomorrow but so far Kennedy’s has not been scheduled.



BREAKING: Over 15,000 doctors sign an open letter urging the Senate to reject Trump’s nominee RFK Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services.

They call it “an affront to the principles of public health” and the “tireless dedication of medical professionals.”

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