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Meissner was previously listed in April as a consultant to the RSV vaccines work group for the CDC committee, before Kennedy fired its advisers.
Rob Lucero says he wants to fill a leadership vacuum that he says both the Democratic and Republican parties are experiencing.
The consists of scientists, public-health experts and physicians, including one criticized for spreading COVID-19 misinformation, conspiracy theories.
Staff who provide data to the vaccine panel have been pushed aside, according to health officials, raising doubts about the availability and cost of some vaccines this fall.
An internal memo and emails obtained by the AP show that Medicaid officials unsuccessfully attempted to block the data transfer, citing legal and ethical concerns. They were overruled by two top advisers to Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr ., who ordered that the dataset be handed over to the Department of Homeland Security, the emails reveal.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. painted a bleak picture of people with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, that was especially hurtful to some.
Everybody seems to want a piece of Bill Nye, the world's premiere science guy — including health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. When speaking with Men's Health, Nye showed his interviewer a very long and one-sided text chain from the antivaxxer in charge of our nation's healthcare.