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RFK Jr. Approved for HHS

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It's Official: RFK Jr. Is Now in Charge of America's Public Health

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The Senate voted to approve the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services .

Kennedy has a long history of making misleading or outright false statements about important health issues, particularly vaccination.

Many medical and public health experts fear he and Trump will cause damage to the country’s public health.

There's little to suggest that Kennedy ’s approach to public health will mark any kind of advancement, according to Adam Gaffney , a critical care and pulmonary physician.

He says Kennedy 's anti-vaccine beliefs are foundational to his distorted understanding of chronic disease.

Even when he highlights real issues, he often blames the wrong targets.

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