RFK Jr.'s Victory Lap

"Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned last week as the CDC's director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told me that the agency deliberately rebutted Kennedy by publishing a fact sheet, noting that vitamin A had been found to be effective against measles in countries that, unlike the United States, have high rates of vitamin-A deficiency. "We had to put up that PDF to subtly counter it, because providers were like, What the hell is actually happening? " Daskalakis said."

"In June, he fired all the members of the CDC's vaccine-advisory committee and replaced them with a cast that includes contrarians, anti-vaccine activists, and conspiracy theorists. Last week, Kennedy pushed out the CDC's director after less than a month on the job, and three senior leaders, including the chief medical officer, resigned in protest. Today, reports emerged that Kennedy wishes to pull the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines from the U.S. market,"

During a measles outbreak in a remote West Texas community, Kennedy waffled on vaccination and promoted alternatives like vitamin A, prompting the CDC to publish a fact sheet rebutting that position. Kennedy then replaced the CDC's vaccine-advisory committee in June with contrarians, anti-vaccine activists and conspiracy theorists. He pushed out the CDC director and prompted resignations by multiple senior leaders, including the chief medical officer. Reports indicate plans to seek removal of Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines from the U.S. market and to install more fringe figures on the vaccine committee. HHS and the White House have said policy is based on sound science; HHS did not respond to requests for comment.

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