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RFK Jr. Promised to Restore Trust in US Health Agencies. A Year Later, It’s Eroding
Kennedy's policy changes include scaling back vaccine guidance and agency layoffs while trust in health agencies fell by about 10 percentage points since early Trump administration, surveys show.
- Overhauling HHS, Kennedy has defended scaling back immunization guidance and directing CDC shifts, citing efforts to restore trust.
- Amid pandemic-era confusion, surveys show trust in federal health agencies is falling, with 47% trusting the CDC for vaccine information and trust among Democrats declining to 55%.
- More than 200 public health and advocacy groups urged Congress to investigate Kennedy's vaccine schedule changes, while the AMA and University of Minnesota launched independent reviews.
- Doctors warn that declining trust and false information could prompt surges of illness, and experts say changing guidance makes vaccine decisions harder for parents and the general public.
- Kennedy, who previously promoted vaccine skepticism, has a history critics say helped create distrust, while documents obtained by The Associated Press and The Guardian recently undermined his explanations about a 2019 trip.
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RFK Jr. promised to restore trust in U.S. health agencies – one year later, it’s eroding
NEW YORK — Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services one year ago, he has defended his upending of federal health policy by saying the changes w
RFK Jr. promised to restore trust in US health agencies. One year later, it’s eroding
NEW YORK (AP) — Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services one year ago, he has defended his upending of federal health policy by saying the changes will restore…
One Year After RFK Jr’s Confirmation, MAHA Looks to the Future of the Health Movement
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Don’t Trust the Experts?
On Monday, The Heritage Foundation hosted an event celebrating one year of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, featuring RFK Jr. and Heritage President Kevin Roberts. While on stage, RFK Jr. did what he often does and reframed a discussion about scientific evidence into a discussion about distrusting “experts.” “Trusting the experts,” he said, “is not a feature of democracy and it's not a feature of science. It's a feature of religio…
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