CDC, Rfk Jr. and U.S. Senate
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Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, has a proposal to touch what is known as one of the third rails of American politics: Social Security.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) called on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to immediately declare a public health emergency for measles, blaming the senior Trump administration official for failing to respond to the rapid resurgence of the disease.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported July 8 a total of 1,288 confirmed measles cases in 39 jurisdictions, including two in Louisiana.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) spoke about his joint plan with Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) to help the Social Security program.
Kennedy, who has no training in medicine or health, has long been the nation’s foremost peddler of junk science and the crackpot conspiracy theories that flow from it.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. places anti-vaxxers in control of U.S. vaccine policy, slandering an actual expert along the way.