The truth was examined by Catherine Giannaro
American Senate members will meet this week to discuss whether Robert F. will be confirmed. Kennedy Junior, an environmental lawyer, as head of the US Department of Health and Humanitarian Services (HHS). The administration oversees 13 agencies, including diseases and prevention control centers, food and drug administration, and national health institutes.
Doctors speak all over the country to support and against his candidacy, although more things talk to-in detailed articles, on social media, and in messages to members of the Senate. The largest organized effort is through the Da`wa Group Committee for the Protection of Health Care.
The committee collected signatures of approximately 24,000 healthcare professionals – including about 15,000 doctors – on a message to Kennedy. The letter refers to Kennedy's call to combat vaccination and his promises to public health efforts as two central interests.
“RFK JR. and procedures for the health of millions, especially children, by undermining confidence in basic health care,” says the message. “His appointment threatens decades of progress in improving health results for patients throughout the country and the world. This is not leadership – it is sabotage.”
The message is also cited with specific examples of Kennedy's wrong data and misleading procedures, including his 2019 visit to Samoa, where Kennedy fueled doubts about the safety of measles vaccine. Vaccination rates decreased from 60 % to 31 % after a Kennedy visit. The outbreak of the subsequent measles killed 83 people, especially children under the age of 5, within four months. At that time, 1868 was accepted to the hospital with the disease.
“Our patients are worth the Secretary of HHS who support the principles of science and public health, with a focus on treating real public health crises facing Americans such as the high cost of prescribed medications, obtaining care, and systemic barriers faced by patients – not a Legacy built on lies and conspiracy theories, “message.
On the contrary, 800 doctors signed a letter supporting Kennedy's nomination last December. Make America healthy again, which is an organization in support of me, which has collected signatures.
“America stands at a crossroads. The support letter says:” By confirming Mr. Kennedy, you will be able to directly face these challenges, providing bold and regular reforms that our public health system needs in a desperate manner. ”
Meanwhile, the new administration has ordered all agencies under HHS to stop traveling, training, meetings, and communications. The Food and Drug Administration, for example, has not published its weekly contacts about the fascism associated with food pollution. Also, centers of diseases control and prevention of diseases and deaths have not been published. This report showed updates on the outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu.
Previous departments issued a temporary pause on the agency's contacts to reorganize the strategy, but this extended stopping caused confusion and anxiety within the institutes supervised by HHS. The researchers also reported concerns about whether the president's political appointed will try to control agencies' communications, as happened in the report of the sick and mortality at the Center for Disease Control during the Covid-19s, when the report contrasts with White House messages on the virus.
Written by Katie Scarlett Brandt
Katie, a award -winning journalist, has written for Chicago Health since 2016, and she is currently editor -in -chief.
