RFK JR’s anti-science agenda will cause catastrophic disaster for the United States | Moustafa Bayoumi

tFederal agencies responsible for protecting public health in the U.S. appear to be going well at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “Good” means horrible thanks to the leadership of the Minister of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jrnot only under his leadership, the institutions that were completely chaotic, but also the secretary’s marginal agenda now puts the lives of everyone in the country at risk.

Let me narrate some of Kennedy’s outstanding achievements. After all, he is a man mark “Crown Jewelry of this Administration” written by Stephen Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff of the White House. In June, Kennedy fired all 17 members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (ACIP), a group that has long developed scientific-based advice on vaccine use. Kennedy put them down like a hot beaker replace They joined new members, some of whom shared his anti-vaccine perspectives and semi-baked skepticism about the most common mRNA covid-19 vaccines.

Unfortunately, Kuved is still with us, and vaccines are helping us survive the dangerous reality. In fact, so far, 14,660 people have died from common factors as fundamental or contributing reasons This year only. However, at a Senate hearing Thursday, Kennedy was ask Senator Jeff Merkley accepted statistics that one million Americans died from Kuved since the outbreak. Kennedy replied: “I don’t know how many people died.” Meanwhile, the CDC Your own websiteA agency he was responsible for listed the death toll at 1,234,371. At the same hearing, Kennedy also said he agree “The mRNA vaccine can cause serious harm, including death, especially among young people,” said one of his appointees. It doesn’t matter Many Research have repeatedly It shows that the vaccine is safe and effective.

That’s not all. In the future, it will be even more difficult to get a shot from Covid Booster. In late August, Kennedy also oversaw the Food and Drug Administration approved some updated Covid vaccines, but at the same time they were strictly restricted and they would be authorized to receive boosters. Last year, anyone over six months was eligible. But this year, you must be at least 65 years of age or have an underlying health condition to increase the risk of severe Covid-19 infection.

We should see something like this. In May, Kennedy occupied an unprecedented unilateral position move Remove Covid-19 booster shots from recommended immunization programs for pregnant women and healthy children. “Our healthcare system is now solid anti-child and anti-science,” Fatima Khan, co-founder of Protect Hout Future Group, told Children’s Vaccination, CNN.

Boost shooting is still usable, Kennedy explain. But he is not saying that they are hard to find and affordable. Private insurers often cover the cost of vaccines by following government advice, and many states limit the cost of vaccine pharmacists can manage vaccines based on these same advice. (California, Oregon and Washington Announce Alliance to protect vaccines. )

For a long time, Kennedy was behind “the efforts to deliberately weaken the protection of the public health system and vaccines in the United States.” This is Susan Monarez in expert In the Wall Street Journal. Monarez has been a director of the CDC for 29 days before she was removed from her position. (Jim O’Neil, Monarez) Alternativesno surprise, is a Trump loyalist with no medical or scientific background. )ACIP is plan The COVID-19-19 vaccine will be held later this month and will be discussed in other topics. In August, Monarez wrote, she was told to “pre-proposal”, which was made by ACIP. She refused. In another statement issued through a lawyer, she explain She won’t be “a specialized health expert for garbage unscientific, reckless instructions and fire.”

Kennedy certainly did all these things. he Turn on fire 2,400 workers (about 18% of the CDC labor force), later Re-rental About 700 people. According to nine directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he “severely weakened plans to protect Americans from cancer, heart attacks, strokes, injuries, violence and more, they said to the nine directors of Kennedy’s alarms led by Kennedy. New York Times. In this country, he underscores the use of efficient vaccines in the largest single measles epidemic in 25 years while cheering on the use of home remedies (e.g. Cod liver oil or vitamins.

All of this is so ideological and irresponsible, with predictable terrible consequences. There are three Confirm death From the measles outbreak, but not the only victim. Our collective trust in the government may be the main casualties. After Monares was fired, Four senior officials The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) resigned in protest of the politicization of the agency. More than 1,000 workers from the Department of Health and Human Services Signed a letter He was asked to resign, noting that “Secretary Kennedy’s actions are harming the health of the country.” Now, we live through the battle between rational scientists and enthusiastic anti-vaxxers, no one knows who will win.

What do anti-vaxxers and the right wing get from this politicization of public health? After all, they live in the same country with the rest of us. They know if Florida surgeon Joseph Ladapo is somewhat healthy The purpose is to end Vaccination for children with preventable diseases such as measles, mumps, chickenpox, polio and hepatitis? Of course I am not. Routine child vaccination Prevent Between 1994 and 2023, there were about 508 million cases in the United States. Has he got rid of them? crazy.

Ladabo Propose “What you put in your body is because of your relationship with the body and with God.” OK Beautiful. But none of us live completely, your health will affect my health and vice versa. Living together means taking good care of ourselves and taking care of each other for our personal and collective well-being. This is not rocket science. But this must be based on science.

The right wing would otherwise see it. For them, the government’s response to Kuvid in particular, in general, public health is leading us to directly implement “repression, censorship and coercion”, reminiscent of previously condemned power systems and governance. result? “Like the previous fascist regime, human rights and personal freedom will be lost” according to For David Bell of the Brownstone Institute, an IQ against Covid-19 restrictions was established.

But this seems to be more of a projection than any appearance to reality. Recent scholarships tend to point in the opposite direction, which shows how social instability in the world’s last pandemic paved the way for the rise before the global pandemic of 1918 Nazi Party In Germany and Fascist political party In Italy. one study Discovering that “Mussolini’s newspapers tend to blame the pandemic on ‘others’ and portray themselves as the voice of ordinary people against a failed “elite.” Sounds familiar.

Kennedy’s anti-science and anti-vax agenda could bring disastrous health across the country, thus fueling the rise of more extreme right-wing politics in the future. Maybe this is what this government is even counting on? This idea sounds too far-fetched to be realized, but when I was proven to be wrong, I also want to live.