Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Companies secretary, spent a lot of his Senate affirmation listening to Wednesday downplaying his position within the anti-vaccine motion.
However Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was unconvinced.
He demanded Kennedy deal with a number of the merchandise offered by Kids’s Health Protection, the anti-vaccine group Kennedy began.
“On their website, they are selling what’s called onesies ― these little things, clothing for babies,” Sanders stated. “One of them is titled, ‘Unvaxxed, Unafraid.’”
One other onesie offered by the group reads, “No Vax, No Problem.”
“Now you’re coming before this committee, and you say you’re pro-vaccine, just want to ask some questions, and yet your organization is making money selling a child’s product to parents for 26 bucks which casts fundamental doubt on the usefulness of vaccines,” Sanders stated to Kennedy.
The senator pressed Kennedy to take the onesies off the market if he actually isn’t anti-vaccine.
Kennedy replied that he’s resigned from the group and has no energy over its choices now. Sanders shortly replied that he solely left just a few months in the past and positively has some affect.
“Are you supportive of these onesies?” Sanders demanded Kennedy reply.
“I’m supportive of vaccines,” Kennedy dodged.
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“Are you supportive of this clothing, which is militantly anti-vaccine?” Sanders requested once more.
Kennedy repeated, “I am supportive of vaccines.”
Few medical specialists would describe Kennedy as supportive of vaccines. For years, he has promoted the scientifically discredited idea that childhood vaccines trigger autism and has shared dangerously deceptive details about the elements in vaccines.
He’s additionally been working with a lawyer who has petitioned the federal authorities to revoke its approval of the lifesaving polio vaccine for kids, and is reportedly contemplating providing him a high position within the HHS.
