Anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. manages to shock with new anti-vax chaos
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stunned federal health officials on Tuesday by abruptly announcing that the COVID-19 vaccine would no longer be recommended for children and healthy pregnant women—a major policy reversal reportedly made without input from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to The Washington Post, agency officials were left scrambling after Kennedy dropped the news, not in a press release or internal memo, but in a video posted to X. That’s how CDC staff—and the rest of the country—found out.
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This is literal life-and-death policy, yet Kennedy is treating it like a social media stunt.
Five hours after the video dropped, CDC officials finally received a one-page “secretarial directive” dated May 19—nearly a week earlier. It was signed by Kennedy but contradicted parts of his own video, deepening the confusion, according to multiple federal health officials who spoke to the Post anonymously.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/29/2324963/-Anti-vaxxer-RFK-Jr-manages-to-shock-with-new-anti-vax-chaos
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