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White House defends Kennedy after fiery Senate hearing
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his decision to restrict COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for children and pregnant women amid bipartisan calls for his resignation, medical groups said.
- On Thursday, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced pointed bipartisan questioning at a rancorous three-hour Senate committee hearing, with exchanges repeatedly devolving into shouting.
- In May, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced COVID-19 vaccines would no longer be recommended for healthy children and pregnant women; Ron Wyden said Kennedy "stacked the deck" by replacing scientists with `skeptics and conspiracy theorists` and called the fired CDC director untrustworthy.
- Kennedy expressed skepticism toward vaccine research, distrusting data that COVID-19 vaccines saved lives and casting doubt on agency statistics while trading insults with Senators Ben Ray Luján and Raphael Warnock Thursday.
- On Wednesday, the Infectious Diseases Society of America and 20 other medical and public health organizations called on him to resign, while some Republican senators voiced unease over COVID-19 policy changes.
- The episode deepens partisan divides over vaccine policy as Kennedy criticized CDC recommendations on lockdowns and masking, and GOP senators praised President Donald Trump's Operation Warp Speed.
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Senators grill RFK Jr on vaccine policy in combative hearing
Democrats and Republicans pushed U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his recent vaccine policies and their stark contrast to President Donald Trump's successful first-term pandemic initiative to speed vaccine development during a combative three-hour Senate hearing on Thursday.
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been grilled in the Senate about his vaccination policy. Both Democratic and Republican senators accused him of denying vaccines to people with his controversial policy, a charge Kennedy vehemently denies.
RFK Jr. Is the Roy Cohn of Healthcare
Republished with permission from Lucian K. Truscott IV Robert F. Kennedy Jr., scion to a Democratic Party dynasty, is a threat to the lives of Americans everywhere. His appearance today at a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee was an unmitigated disaster for the Committee, for sane governance, and for the health and wellbeing of the citizens of this country. Mainstream media reports described Kennedy as “combative” and “contentious.” I would…
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