Dr. Adam Ratner has expressed serious concerns about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leading the Department of Health and Human Services, citing Kennedy's history of undermining vaccine confidence. Despite Kennedy’s claims of not being anti-vaccine, his skepticism about vaccine safety poses risks to public trust in vaccination efforts. Ratner emphasizes the potential repercussions, suggesting that anti-vaccine sentiments could harm public health, as evidenced by recent measles outbreaks, which indicate weaknesses in public health systems and increasing distrust of vaccines.
"It's very disturbing that someone who has spent so much of his career trying to undermine confidence in vaccines... has the potential to be in a position of power over the infrastructure that has those goals."
"As mentors of mine have said many times over the years, 'it is much easier to scare people than to un-scare them'... by elevating anti-vaccine views in the guise of RFK, we risk a crisis in vaccine confidence in the U.S."
"When we start to see measles, it's evidence of the faltering of our public health systems and of fomenting of distrust of vaccines..."
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