Kennedy made his most brazen attack on vaccines in January, slashing the CDC's childhood vaccine schedule from 17 immunizations down to 11 to be in line with recommendations of Denmark, a much smaller country with a relatively homogenous population and universal health care. The US is now an outlier among peer nations for recommending so few childhood vaccines.
GOLDBERG: They sneeze, everybody gets sick. You think you're dying, you know, but you're not, you just got hit by kid stuff, Goldberg continued. We know that this happens. There are reasons that people put these mandates in place. Now, you want to get rid of all of them. You're basically saying, Let's see what happens if your kid goes to school with other kids. SUNNY HOSTIN: And what about the teachers in the school? GOLDBERG: And your grandparents, who are elderly, are in with your grandkids. So now, you're saying, y'all don't care.
In the combative three-hour hearing, Kennedy defended his dramatic firing of the CDC director last week, less than a month after her confirmation, which he effusively supported. Today, he repeatedly called her a liar and made the extraordinary claim that she openly confessed to him that she cannot be trusted. Kennedy went on to reiterate the dangerous claim that the CDC is corrupt.