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18 days after Robert F. Kennedy JR. sweared as the US Minister of Health and Welfare, his department delayed or canceled two major vaccine advisory committee meetings. Investigate As a child, he died for the first time in this country in this country in 10 years, disregarding the seriousness of the vaccine schedule and the seriousness of measles.
Including that movement and others Opinion Fox News SUNDAY -Massachusets, the Democratic Party Senator Elizabeth Warren, sent a letter from Kennedy about measles announced by Fox News to clarify the intention of vaccine policy.
Warren spent Monday night and wrote in the letter that CNN gained exclusively, “This is a dangerous time for public health.” She cited the risk of the worst flu season and the H5N1 BIRD flu in 15 years, as well as the onset of measles in Texas. “Your irresponsible and reckless efforts to undermine the country’s vaccine policy threaten to fan the flame of disaster.”
Kennedy added, “We need to understand the options for all parents to consult a medical service provider to get MMR (measles, fashionable, rubella) vaccines.”
Kennedy said, “The vaccine not only protects individual children from measles, but also contributes to community exemptions, protecting people who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons.
Powerful statements on vaccinations have been made personally so far than Kennedy, a prominent anti -Bacin defender, but in HHS, his predecessors did not explicitly recommend vaccinations according to their previous measles.
Kennedy’s statement on measles vaccination also appeared after a paragraph that emphasized treatment such as vitamin A for sick people.
In her letter, Warren pointed out that Kennedy’s OP-ED did not include strong demands for vaccination.
“Do you think good nutrition is a better defense against measles than MMR vaccines?” Warren wrote.
Senator, a member of the Senate Financial Services Commission, asked one of the two who baked Kennedy about the history of the anti -assinant inquiry and the financial benefit of the vaccine lawsuit during the confirmation hearing, “Is it going to change the course and instruct your children to protect your children from measles?”
“Yes or not?” Warren wrote.
The Senate’s questions also dealt with Kennedy’s plans for the prevention of US disease and the vaccine advisory committee for US food pharmacies, and the intention to develop potential vaccines for bird flu by investigating the meeting with a childhood vaccine and a government contract with Vaccine Maker.
Warren said, “The mission of your agency is to improve the health and welfare of all Americans. “You can’t do that already -and you must reverse the course immediately.”
She asked Kennedy’s response until March 10.
