Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Secretary of Health | EUROtoday

A vaccine-skeptical environmental lawyer and critic of the pharmaceutical business will turn into the Trump II administration’s subsequent well being secretary. During the Covid pandemic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, son of Bob and grandson of JFK, first an opponent within the presidential race after which an ally of Trump, in contrast vaccines to “crimes against humanity” and “the Nazi Holocaust” ( upon the announcement of his appointment, the shares of vaccine corporations misplaced on the inventory markets in America and Europe).

Kennedy, to whom Trump is giving a broad mandate, has repeated unfounded claims that vaccines are linked to autism in youngsters, promoted the false concept that HIV doesn’t trigger AIDS and baselessly linked some antidepressants to the rise at school shootings and using a sure herbicide to the rise within the variety of younger individuals who declare themselves transgender.

In a sure sense, the New York Times famous, this can be a extra stunning alternative than the others as a result of it has indicated an individual who needs to wage conflict on the federal businesses he’ll handle. At least primarily based on what has been stated up to now. Kennedy now guarantees as an alternative that he’ll work with HHS staff and businesses to free them “from the suffocating cloud” of firms and to assist make Americans the healthiest folks on Earth. “Together we will eliminate corruption, stop the revolving door between industry and government, and return our health agencies to their rich tradition of evidence-based science and gold standard,” he wrote on

As head of HHS, Kennedy would lead an enormous federal division that features greater than 100 applications supporting drugs, public well being and social companies, together with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare Services and Medicaid and the Food and Drug Administration.