Washington D.C. – A Reuters special report exposes new details on the extreme lengths Trump health secretary RFK Jr. continues to go to ‘dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy’ and dig up any link between vaccines and autism, rejecting “studies involving millions of people over the past two decades which have concluded there is no credible link” – all with the enthusiastic support of Donald Trump.
- $5 Billion to Manufacture Anti-Vax Fear: Notably, Kennedy internally proposed a $5 billion study on autism-vaccines that would have “dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide.”
- Make Polio Great Again: Alarmingly, when Kennedy and his advisers were debating which vaccines to remove from the CDC’s child vaccine schedule, the Secretary personally advocated “removing the polio vaccine” that has kept generations of children from suffering paralysis.
- Trump Personally Keeping Anti-Vax Agenda Alive: Confirming what Protect Our Care has stressed for months, Donald Trump himself is personally involved in keeping the administration’s dangerous and unpopular anti-vax agenda alive. According to Reuters: “[Kennedy’ and Trump meet in the Oval Office every few months, most recently in June” where “The president will often ask what new efforts are underway on vaccines broadly and whether the health secretary believes he will ultimately prove a link with autism … Kennedy interprets the questions as a directive to forge ahead with research on vaccine safety… The White House did not dispute details about its relationship with Kennedy or conversations between the health secretary.”
“Donald Trump and RFK Jr. made vaccination rates plummet by beating the dead horse that is the debunked autism-vaccine myth,” said Brad Woodhouse, president of Protect Our Care. “They’re committed to the lie in a desperate effort to excuse the huge uptick in preventable diseases like measles that stemmed directly from their anti-vax fear campaign. Nothing is off the table for Kennedy who wants to baselessly gut the child vaccine schedule further and make Polio great again while wasting billions in tax dollars to ‘study’ what has already been studied to death. Trump and Kennedy would rather keep needlessly putting American kids in the hospital or morgue as a sacrifice to the anti-vax cause. Why? Because there’s too much money to be made for Kennedy’s grifter and lawyer friends that thrive off of the administration’s refusal to follow the overwhelming science that vaccines are safe and effective.”
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