Sen. Bill Cassidy Stammers When Asked If He ‘Regrets’ Voting For RFK Jr. | EUROtoday

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who voted to verify Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of well being and human companies, was requested by Fox News on Sunday whether or not he regrets that alternative.

“I’m often asked that, but I’d rather not make this personal like what are my feelings,” Cassidy, who can be a doctor, responded, stammering barely, after “Fox News Sunday” anchor Jacqui Heinrich introduced up the CDC’s current choice to change the childhood vaccine schedule underneath Kennedy’s orders. “It should be about the health of the patient.”

Cassidy decried that the vaccine schedule change didn’t bear the required “scientific review committee” or “go through the advisory committee for immunization practices,” including that the transfer “totally bypassed the normal mechanism.”

Earlier this month, Kennedy sparked widespread confusion after asserting that the United States would instantly cut back the variety of vaccines it recommends for each baby.

The change eliminated necessities for vaccine safety towards the flu, rotavirus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B and a few types of meningitis or RSV, and now solely recommends protections towards these illnesses for sure teams thought of high-risk.

The change got here after President Donald Trump in early December launched a memorandum instructing Kennedy and the performing director of the CDC to think about aligning the U.S. with greatest practices on childhood vaccine suggestions from peer nations. The memorandum pointed to Denmark, Japan and Germany as particular examples.

With flu charges on the rise, the brand new vaccine schedule has confronted backlash from the American Public Health Organization and well being consultants.

Elsewhere within the interview, Cassidy slammed the Trump administration for making an attempt to align America’s vaccine schedule with Denmark’s.

“Anyone that thinks that our country is like Denmark when it comes to the need for vaccines has never actually lived with American people beyond those who are wealthy and well-to-do,” he declared. “And I say that as a doctor who spent 18 years of my life, or 20 years of my life, in a hospital for the poorly insured and the uninsured. That’s not our country.”

The doctor senator argued that if “you meet our country where they are [and] not imagine that we’re like Denmark, you will find that you actually have to have this sort of vaccine schedule.”

After Heinrich requested if the senator is “going to do anything to change” the brand new vaccine suggestions, Cassidy famous that “the current law is that the health HHS secretary has the right to do this.”

Speaking about a number of circumstances wherein kids died throughout the nation because of vaccine-preventable illnesses equivalent to measles, he added, “let’s just take care of people and move beyond your ideology.“

Meanwhile, Kennedy declared in a statement Monday that “this decision [to drop the number of vaccine recommendations] protects children, respects families, and rebuilds trust in public health.”

Cassidy additionally slammed Kennedy’s vaccine schedule change in a Jan. 5 X publish, stressing that the alteration will “make America sicker.”

“The vaccine schedule IS NOT A MANDATE. It’s a recommendation giving parents the power,” he wrote.

Cassidy added: “Changing the pediatric vaccine schedule based on no scientific input on safety risks and little transparency will cause unnecessary fear for patients and doctors, and will make America sicker.”

Watch Cassidy’s look on “Fox News Sunday” under.