"He has questioned the safety of the COVID vaccine and forbidden his department from promoting vaccines to the public. Abraham will join the agency as principal deputy director, according to an official for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services who was not authorized to speak to the media about a personnel matter."
"Because neither Kennedy nor O'Neill is a doctor or scientist, Abraham's medical degree is useful to help further their views, Shah said. "With the addition of Dr. Abraham, they now have a scientific gloss that they can put on their anti-vaccine theories," Shah said. "He gives Secretary Kennedy some scientific and medical cover for their odious and unscientific beliefs," he added."
Dr. Ralph Abraham, Louisiana's health chief and former congressman, will serve as principal deputy director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Abraham has publicly questioned COVID vaccine safety, banned promotion of COVID, flu and mpox vaccines by his state health department, and supported investigating a debunked link between vaccines and autism. He has been a vocal supporter of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Critics say Abraham’s appointment provides medical credibility to HHS leadership that lacks scientific credentials. The principal deputy director position had been vacant since Dr. Nirav Shah stepped down in February.
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