In news that should surprise no one, it's RFK Jr. who is now trying to take down the Hepatitis B vaccine.
Normally, I would say that separating the excrement from the chaff in the Trump administration would be a difficult task.
RFK, Jr. makes it easy.
An influential vaccine committee will revisit recommendations around the hepatitis B shot on Thursday and may change the current practice of vaccinating newborns, an intervention that for decades has contributed to falling rates of the disease.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly questioned whether babies should continue to receive the vaccine on their first day of life.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee has recommended the hepatitis B vaccine for all infants since 1991. (The panel later recommended catch-up vaccinations for children who were not immunized as babies; it first recommended the vaccine in 1982 for people who were at high risk.) The goal was to guard against an infection that can leave lasting liver damage.
Yet another case where this lunatic is trying to dismantle one of the great public health successes of the past half century.
This man is a menace.
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