Minutes after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Kennedy and his team to Make America Healthy Again.
The order created the MAHA Commission, and specifically instructed Kennedy to focus on addressing the root causes of America&#8217;s escalating health crisis, especially childhood chronic disease.
Kennedy did just that — and swiftly.
Here’s what the secretary has done so far to transform American food standards and reorient his agency’s health initiatives.
<h3>Food Changes </h3>
DYES: Kennedy announced in April that he’s phasing out a number of artificial food dyes and colorings by the end of 2026. Specifically, HHS is banning petroleum-based synthetic dyes, including Red 3 and 40, Blue 1 and  2, Yellow 5 and 6, and Green 3. Such dyes are common in cereals, candy, baked goods, soft drinks, and other junk foods commonly consumed by children.
HHS will also be partnering with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct comprehensive research on how these dyes impact children’s health and development.
INGREDIENT STANDARDS: Kennedy has directed the FDA to revise a rule that allows companies to “self-affirm” the safety of food ingredients. Under the revision, manufacturers will have to publicly submit safety data for new ingredients. HHS <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/revising-gras-pathway.html">says</a> such enhanced oversight will “bring transparency to American consumers.”
LIMITING SNAP: Several states are moving to limit food stamps, also known as SNAP benefits, to healthier options. The limits often exclude sugary drinks like soda, candy, and some other highly processed foods.
RFK has urged governors to submit waivers to the Department of Agriculture to effectuate such limits on SNAP. On April 16, Arkansas was the first state in the nation to submit such a request. States like West Virginia, Utah, Idaho, Tennessee, South Carolina, Missouri, and Indiana are exploring SNAP restrictions, too.
TRANSPARENCY TOOL: In March, the FDA unveiled a tool that allows people to look up chemical contaminants in foods from a large database. The tool, which can be <a href="https://www.hfpappexternal.fda.gov/scripts/fdcc/index.cfm?set=contaminant-levels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accessed here</a>, includes tolerances, action levels, guidance levels, derived intervention levels, recommended maximum levels, and advisory levels of contaminants. Some of the contaminants included in the database are Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or DDT, a synthetic pesticide; Chlordane, an organochlorine pesticide; and Aldrin and Dieldrin, which are both synthetic chemicals in the insecticide family.
<h3>Formula </h3>
OPERATION STORK SPEED: The FDA announced in March that it is tightening its standards on infant formula and reevaluating current products on the market. The move followed a Consumer Reports investigation, which found that about <a href="https://www.consumerreports.org/babies-kids/baby-formula/baby-formula-contaminants-test-results-a7140095293/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">half of the 41 formulas</a> it tested contained potentially harmful levels of arsenic, lead, BPA, acrylamide, or PFAS, <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/rfk-jr-baby-formula-operation-stork-speed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to News Nation.
The FDA, for example, will increase testing for heavy metals and other contaminants in infant formula and encourage companies to work with the FDA to increase transparency and clearer labeling
<h3>Fluoride Fight </h3>
This month, Utah became the first state in the nation to ban the addition of fluoride to public drinking water. Numerous other states are also considering bans, including Florida, where a bill proposing a statewide ban just passed the Senate.
The movement seems to have been sparked by Kennedy, who has routinely spoken out against fluoridation. Just before the election, he <a href="https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1852812012478398923">posted</a> on X that on day one of Donald Trump’s presidency, he would advise that all United States water systems remove fluoride. He’s also called fluoride an “industrial waste” and says it’s associated with numerous negative effects, like arthritis, IQ loss, and thyroid disease.
<h3>Autism </h3>
CONTRIBUTING FACTORS: There have been reports since March about the CDC studying potential links between vaccinations and the rise in autism. HHS never confirmed nor denied such reports, but said “no stone would go unturned” when researching autism causes. In April, RFK confirmed that he’s commissioning a series of studies on suspected links to high autism rates, including mold, pesticides, food chemicals, and, notably, medication.
NIH, which falls under HHS, is investing $50 million in research for causes and improving treatments for autism, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2025/04/25/hss-autism-registry-nih-data-platform/83269805007/">according</a> to USA Today.
DEADLINE ON CAUSES: RFK told Trump in April that HHS will know what is causing the autism epidemic by September. Kennedy also revealed new CDC data that found 1 in 31 children are diagnosed with the disorder, which is nearly 5 times higher than when the CDC started these surveys back in 1992, according to some estimates.
<h3>Cleaning House </h3>
Kennedy announced in March that he’s restructuring HHS and terminating tens of thousands of employees.
“What I found when I came to HHS, is really a sprawling bureaucracy. We have over 100 communications departments — we should have one. We have 40 IT departments, 40 procurement departments, dozens of HR departments,” Kennedy <a href="https://x.com/michaeljknowles/status/1905403551024554014" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told Daily Wire host Michael Knowles</a>. “And that is where we’re doing the cuts. We’re going down from 82,000 personnel to 62,000.”
“We’re keeping the scientists, we’re keeping the front-line providers,” he added. “We&#8217;re trying to do our best, not only to serve as stewards of the taxpayer money, but also to make the agency more efficient.”
<h3>Realigning Funding and Research </h3>
VACCINES: The National Institutes of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/03/10/vaccines-nih-rfk-research-canceled/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Health</a> (NIH) will stop spending money to find out why Americans are hesitant to take vaccines. NIH is terminating or scaling back more than 40 related grants and has said that such spending no longer aligns with NIH priorities.
AUTISM RESEARCH: As noted above, Kennedy has launched a $50 million initiative aimed at investigating the causes of autism and improving treatments.
FUNDING CHRONIC DISEASE: RFK is reallocating funds he’s cut from the NIH and CDC to address chronic disease.
<h3>What’s Next?</h3>
Kennedy is only starting on his mission to address the alarming rates of chronic disease, especially among children. But the secretary has also signaled that he’s eyeing the pharmaceutical industry next.
Kennedy has voiced concerns about how we overmedicate, especially young Americans. There have also been reports that RFK is aiming to curb or <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2025/04/04/rfk-jr-may-want-to-ban-prescription-drug-ads-but-can-he/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ban</a> prescription drug ads.

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MAHA In 100 Days: How Trump And RFK Are Transforming Food And Healthcare In America

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Health and Human Services

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Vaccines

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reportedly studying if there is any link between vaccinations and the rise in autism.
Sources told Reuters that the CDC, which is under the purview of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is planning a large study into vaccines and autism. A CDC study from 2020 found that 1 in 36 children in the United States have been diagnosed with autism.
The Daily Wire reached out to HHS about the report, but has yet to receive a reply.
Over the weekend, HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cdc-plans-study-into-vaccines-autism-sources-say-2025-03-07/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the department will leave &#8220;no stone unturned&#8221; while studying the rise in autism.
“As President Trump said in his Joint Address to Congress, the rate of autism in American children has skyrocketed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;CDC will leave no stone unturned in its mission to figure out what exactly is happening. The American people expect high quality research and transparency and that is what CDC is delivering.&#8221;
National Institutes of Health (NIH) director nominee Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has said he doesn&#8217;t believe there is a link between vaccines and the rise in autism, but would back &#8220;a broad scientific agenda&#8221; looking into the matter.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t generally believe there is a link, based on my reading of the literature. But we do have a sharp rise in autism rates, and I don&#8217;t think any scientist really knows the cause of it,&#8221; Bhattacharya said during a confirmation hearing. &#8220;I would support a broad scientific agenda based on data to get an answer to that.&#8221;
Kennedy is currently tackling a measles outbreak in Texas, where 198 cases have been identified since late January, largely among the Mennonite population. In an op-ed published this month, RFK said the <a href="https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/cdc-team-assisting-texas-measles-outbreak-case-total-rises">outbreak</a> must elicit a “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/robert-f-kennedy-jr-measles-outbreak-call-action-all-us">call to action</a>” for all of us to affirm our commitment to public health.
The secretary said he’s harnessing HHS to support Texas communities and the state&#8217;s health department by making the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine readily available. HHS has sent 2,000 doses of the vaccine to West Texas. Kennedy also said he’s focusing on educating parents on post-infection treatments and nutrition. 
&#8220;What we’re trying to do is really to restore faith in government, and to make sure that we are there to help them with their needs and not particularly to dictate what they ought to be doing,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6369595673112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maha-update-here-are-rfks-latest-moves-on-big-food-and-big-pharma" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘MAHA’ Update: Here Are RFK’s Latest Moves On Big Food And Big Pharma</a>

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Visits “The Faulkner Focus”

Kennedy’s CDC To Reportedly Study Potential Link Between Vaccines And Autism

Politics

Trump Administration

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is continuing to advance his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-make-america-healthy-again-commission-is-already-impacting-the-food-industry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Make America Healthy Again&#8221; movement</a> this coming week, reportedly meeting with top executives from major food brands.
Kennedy, as highlighted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-make-america-healthy-again-commission-is-already-impacting-the-food-industry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a>, has already impacted the food industry and made several vaccine-related moves as HHS secretary.
RFK is expected to meet with executives from General Mills, PepsiCo, and other big-name brands on Monday, according to a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/08/rfk-jr-food-industry-meeting-00219631" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Politico. The meeting was apparently encouraged by the White House &#8212; President Donald Trump reportedly wants department heads to meet with leaders from the industries they oversee.
Kennedy has voiced concerns about seed oils, dyes, preservatives, and other ingredients often found in processed foods and sugary drinks. Reports suggest food companies will be on board with some related changes, though it&#8217;s expected there will be a lot of pushback over axing seed oils, since they are so inexpensive and versatile.
Additionally, there&#8217;s been a stronger push from state reps and the federal government to limit sugary and highly processed food and drink options for government food benefits, called SNAP. Specifically, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R), as well as lawmakers in Arizona, Indiana, Kansas, Texas, and Wyoming, are looking to restrict SNAP.
U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has also previously said she&#8217;s working with RFK to advance the MAHA movement, and specifically mentioned restricting SNAP. Though, according to The Wall Street Journal, President Trump is skeptical of restrictions or bans since they are typically unpopular with the public. And, notably, Trump himself is an <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/21/diet-coke-button-donald-trump/77856559007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">avid lover of Diet Coke</a>. 
On vaccines, Kennedy has <a href="https://apnews.com/article/childhood-vaccines-schedule-kennedy-trump-hhs-4d5e6c52c602f5edbcd837748605e9d0">indicated</a> that he’ll effectively be reviewing the childhood vaccination schedule. As the head of the &#8220;MAHA Commission,&#8221; Kennedy said he’ll investigate vaccines, as well as pesticides, food additives, microplastics, and antidepressants, to see if they have contributed to a rise of chronic illness.
The HHS secretary has also halted the CDC’s “<a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302906/cdc-flu-vaccine-campaign-terminated">Wild to Mild</a>” campaign <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/26/rfk-jr-vaccines-informed-consent-cdc-messaging-vaccinations/#:~:text=Health%20and%20Human%20Services%20Secretary,campaign%20promoting%20the%20flu%20vaccine.">promoting</a> the flu vaccine. Kennedy wants advertisements going forward to promote the idea of “informed consent” in vaccine decision-making, which would include giving people <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/26/rfk-jr-vaccines-informed-consent-cdc-messaging-vaccinations/#:~:text=Health%20and%20Human%20Services%20Secretary,campaign%20promoting%20the%20flu%20vaccine.">information</a> about the adverse events associated with vaccines.
Additionally, citing conflicts of interest, RFK is preparing to <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2025/03/01/rfk-jr-readies-cdc-for-changes-in-vaccine-policies/">remove</a> several members of the external committee that advises the FDA and CDC on vaccine approvals and other key public health decisions. Recommendations from that committee, known as ACIP, are almost always followed by HHS and could impact the childhood vaccination schedule. Kennedy has <a href="https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/adult-non-flu-vaccines/scheduled-meeting-cdc-vaccine-advisers-postponed#:~:text=The%20postponing%20of%20the%20ACIP,committees%20likely%20to%20be%20targeted." target="_blank" rel="noopener">postponed</a> ACIP’s first panel to &#8220;accommodate public comment in advance of the meeting.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-make-america-healthy-again-commission-is-already-impacting-the-food-industry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How The ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Commission Is Already Impacting The Food Industry</a>

Democratic Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Delivers Address To Jewish Community In New York

‘MAHA’ Update: Here Are RFK’s Latest Moves On Big Food And Big Pharma

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Prescription Drugs

U.S.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kenned Jr. emphasized the importance of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine for children on Sunday as a Mennonite community in Texas faces a &#8220;measles outbreak.&#8221;
Kennedy wrote a 700-word <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/robert-f-kennedy-jr-measles-outbreak-call-action-all-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a> for Fox News Digital urging parents to talk to their doctors about the MMR vaccine for children. According to the <a href="https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/measles-outbreak-feb-28-2025#:~:text=There%20has%20been%20one%20fatality,area%20and%20the%20surrounding%20communities." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas Department of Health</a>, 146 measles cases have been identified in the South Plains region since January, mostly among unvaccinated children. One unvaccinated school-aged child in the area died from the respiratory illness while 20 people have been hospitalized.
&#8220;Parents play a pivotal role in safeguarding their children’s health. All parents should consult with their healthcare providers to understand their options to get the MMR vaccine,&#8221; Kennedy wrote. &#8220;The decision to vaccinate is a personal one. Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons.&#8221;
&#8220;The current Texas outbreak has predominantly affected children, with 116 of the 146 cases occurring in individuals under 18 years of age,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The DSHS reports that 79 of the confirmed cases involved individuals who had not received the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, while 62 cases had unknown vaccine status. At least five had received an MMR vaccine.&#8221;
Kennedy added that &#8220;good nutrition remains a best defense against most chronic and infectious illnesses,&#8221; saying that parents should focus on vitamin-rich and balanced diets.
&#8220;The measles outbreak in Texas is a call to action for all of us to reaffirm our commitment to public health. By working together — parents, healthcare providers, community leaders, and government officials, we can prevent future outbreaks and protect the health of our nation,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Under my leadership, HHS is and will always be committed to radical transparency to regain the public’s trust in its health agencies.&#8221;
Last week during the first cabinet meeting of the new Trump administration, the HHS secretary said that the measles outbreak in Texas was &#8220;not unusual.&#8221;
&#8220;Incidentally, there have been four measles outbreaks this year in this country. Last year, there were 16. So it’s not unusual. We have measles outbreaks every year,&#8221; he said.
In the 16 measles &#8220;outbreaks&#8221; in 2024, there were a total of 285 reported cases of the illness, most of which were in children. Of the 285 measles cases, 40% required hospitalization last year. The death of a Texas child last month is the first death attributed to measles in the U.S. since 2015.
Kennedy said he directed federal agencies, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to work with the Texas state government and offer &#8220;technical assistance, laboratory support, vaccines, and therapeutic medications as needed.&#8221;

RFK Addresses ‘Measles Outbreak,’ Touts MMR Vaccine’s Effectiveness

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Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bernie-sanders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bernie Sanders</a> (I-VT) grilled Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his alleged support for baby onesies that touted the wearer&#8217;s unvaccinated status.
Sanders, officially an independent, joined with Democrats in the Senate Finance Committee as they used Wednesday&#8217;s hearing to highlight and attack some of Kennedy&#8217;s more controversial past statements — particularly regarding vaccines — while disregarding his more recent positions on the issues.
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Sanders began his line of inquiry with an observation, saying to Kennedy, &#8220;I think the gist of what you are trying to say today is you’re really pro-vaccine, you want to ask questions.&#8221;
Kennedy has said on numerous occasions that he does not oppose vaccines per se, but he does not support vaccines being recommended or mandated without first being studied for both safety and efficacy.
&#8220;You have started a group called the Children’s Health Defense. You’re the originator,&#8221; Sanders said then, pivoting to his first query. &#8220;Right now, as I understand it, on their website they are selling what’s called onesies. These are little things, clothing for babies. One of them is styled, ‘UNVAXXED, UNAFRAID.’ Next one — and they’re sold for 26 bucks apiece, by the way — next one is ‘NO VAX, NO PROBLEM.'&#8221;
&#8220;Now you’re coming before this committee and you say you are pro-vaccine, just want to ask some questions. And yet your organization is making money selling a child’s product to parents for 26 bucks, which casts fundamental doubt on you on the usefulness of vaccines,&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;Can you tell us now that you will, now that you are pro-vaccine, that you’re going to have your organization take these products off the market?&#8221;
&#8220;Senator, I have no power over that organization. I’m not a part of it,&#8221; Kennedy said, pointing out the fact that he&#8217;d already resigned from the board at said organization.
&#8220;That was just a few months ago!&#8221; Sanders interrupted, insisting that Kennedy must still have some influence over what the organization sold or did not sell. &#8220;You founded that, you certainly have power. &#8230; Are you supportive of this?&#8221;
&#8220;I’ve had nothing to do with —&#8221; Kennedy objected again.
&#8220;Are you supportive of these onesies!?&#8221; Sanders demanded to know.
Kennedy did not budge, repeating, &#8220;I’m supportive of vaccines.&#8221;
&#8220;Are you supportive of these — this clothing, which is militantly anti-vaccine?&#8221; Sanders demanded again.
&#8220;I am supportive of vaccines. I want good science and I want to protect —&#8221; Kennedy tried again, but Sanders interrupted once more, substituting his own assertion.
&#8220;But you will not tell the organization you founded not to continue selling that product,&#8221; Sanders said.

Robert F. Kennedy Hearing Jan 29

Bernie Sanders Grills RFK Jr. Over Alleged Support For … Infant Clothing

Bernie Sanders Grills RFK Jr. Over Alleged Support For ... Infant Clothing

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Congress

Health Care

Microsoft founder <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-gates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Gates</a> recapped during an interview this week his recent dinner with President-elect Donald Trump ahead of the inauguration next week.
Gates is just the latest major tech figure to have dined with the president-elect, joining the ranks of others like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and more.
Gates told The Wall Street Journal that he dined with Trump two weeks ago and had a &#8220;long and actually quite intriguing dinner with him.&#8221;
Gates said that Trump&#8217;s incoming chief of staff, Susie Wiles, was the only other person from Trump&#8217;s side to join him during the dinner.
He said that they talked about a &#8220;wide-ranging&#8221; number of topics, including Gates&#8217; work with vaccines.
“He, in the Covid days, accelerated the vaccine innovation,” Gates said. “So I was asking him if maybe the same kind of thing could be done here, and we both got, I think, pretty excited about that.”
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“I felt like he was energized and looking forward to helping to drive innovation,” Gates said. “I was frankly impressed with how well he showed a lot of interest in the issues I brought up.”
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Bill Gates talks about the recent three-hour-long dinner he had with President-elect Trump.
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President-elect Donald Trump said during a press conference on Monday that his nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will not take away vaccines like the polio vaccine.
Trump made the remarks after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mcconnell-warns-rfk-jr-to-steer-clear-of-dangerous-polio-vaccine-skeptics">report</a> from The New York Times last week revealed that a lawyer who is helping Kennedy select federal health officials for the incoming administration had petitioned the federal government just two years ago to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine.
A reporter at the press conference asked Trump if he wanted Kennedy to revoke any vaccines.
&#8220;No, I want him to come back with a report as to what he thinks,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to find out a lot. We&#8217;re doing two things. We&#8217;re going to have tremendous cost savings &#8230; that&#8217;s a minimum. And we&#8217;re also going to have, I think, very serious discussions about certain things, whether it&#8217;s pesticides or, you know, Europe doesn&#8217;t use pesticides, and yet they have a better mortality rate than we do. They don&#8217;t use pesticides. In fact, they use it as an excuse not to take our farm products.&#8221;
&#8220;We spend billions and billions of dollars on pesticides, and something bad is happening,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Again, you take a look at autism today versus 20 or 25 years ago. It&#8217;s like not even believable. So we&#8217;re going to have reports. No, nothing&#8217;s going to happen very quickly. I think you&#8217;re going to find that Bobby is &#8230; he&#8217;s a very rational guy. I found him to be very rational.&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re not going to lose the polio vaccine,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;That&#8217;s not going to happen. I saw what happened with polio. I have friends that were very much affected by that. I have friends from many years ago, and they have &#8230; obviously, they’re still in not such good shape because of it. Now, that was &#8230; and many people died, and the moment they took that vaccine, it ended. Dr. Jonas Salk did a great job.&#8221;
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He added that his administration was also going to figure out &#8220;why we are paying more than other countries&#8221; for the cost of medicines.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to have a big conversation on price,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Why is it that Germany and the UK and other countries, [we] are paying so much more for the same box of medicine made in the same plant? Why is it that we&#8217;re paying many times more? And I know the answer — because our government didn&#8217;t do what they were supposed to do. And what I put in place was terminated unexpectedly by the Biden administration, and they shouldn&#8217;t have terminated it. It would have had a huge impact.&#8221;
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: &#8220;I think you&#8217;re going to find that <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RobertKennedyJr</a> is a very rational guy&#8230; You&#8217;re not going to lose the Polio vaccine. That&#8217;s not going to happen.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/kuUpwYvwNm">pic.twitter.com/kuUpwYvwNm</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1868704254388744307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2024</a></blockquote>

President-Elect Trump Speaks To The Press At Mar-A-Lago

Trump: RFK Jr. Is Not Going To Take Away Polio Vaccines

Polio

In a new interview, President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> shared how he is taking an open-minded approach to health care after meeting with drug company executives last week.
Trump told NBC&#8217;s Kristen Welker about what he did with his pick to lead the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/robert-f-kennedy-jr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dr-oz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Mehmet Oz</a>, his nominee to become Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator, ahead of his second term.
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President Trump: We have to get our chronic disease epidemic under control and make our country HEALTHY again <a href="https://t.co/5o8XCCA8Vc">pic.twitter.com/5o8XCCA8Vc</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1865775287666934172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
&#8220;I did something the other night that was a little unusual at Mar-a-Lago,&#8221; Trump said during the &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; interview that aired on Sunday. &#8220;I called the drug companies. The top drug companies. And I called RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz and some of his people and I said, &#8216;Let&#8217;s all get together and figure out where we&#8217;re going, because we&#8217;re going to do a lot of things.'&#8221;
He said the recent meeting, which <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/12/05/trump-rfk-jr-pfizer-lilly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> included executives from Pfizer and Eli Lilly, entailed discussions about a wide range of issues.
&#8220;We met for a long time and we talked about pricing and we talked about vaccines, you know, in terms of what happens. We talked about pesticides. We talked about everything,&#8221; Trump said. He added, in an apparent reference to Kennedy: &#8220;And I think a lot of good things are going to come from him. And he&#8217;s not going to upset any system. &#8230; He&#8217;s not looking to, you know, reinvent the wheel, totally. But, when you look at the numbers, we really don&#8217;t have a very healthy country.&#8221;
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Tackling expenses in the pharmaceutical industry is a top priority, Trump indicated.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to reduce prices because the middleman makes more money than the drug companies, in all fairness to the drug companies,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a middleman that nobody even knows who they are. And you look at our prices, they&#8217;re much higher than the prices for the same medicine, for the same stuff.&#8221;
Trump also dismissed the notion that he opposes all vaccines. He expressed support for Kennedy&#8217;s stated position for placing them under increased scrutiny, particularly when it comes to protecting children, and pointed out how autism diagnoses have spiked in recent decades.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not against vaccines,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;The Polio vaccine is the greatest thing. If somebody told me to get rid of the Polio vaccine, they&#8217;re going to have to work real hard to convince me. I think &#8230; certain vaccines are incredible, but maybe some aren&#8217;t. And if they aren&#8217;t, we have to find out.&#8221;

Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy

‘A Little Unusual’: Trump Opens Up About Meeting With RFK Jr., Dr. Oz, And Drug Company Execs

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Dr. Oz

Kathleen Sebelius, who served as secretary of the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department under former President Barack Obama, warned that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/robert-f-kennedy-jr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</a> taking on her old position could  &#8220;end up killing people.&#8221;
The alarming remark came during an MSNBC interview after President-elect Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-expected-to-nominate-robert-f-kennedy-jr-for-hhs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> last week Kennedy as his pick to lead HHS during his second term. Sebelius cited Kennedy&#8217;s skeptical stance on vaccines, one which Kennedy has defended as not being outright anti-vaxx.
&#8220;I think we are talking about magnitudes of danger beyond erroneously making legal decisions. This is life or death. The HHS affects people from birth to their grave and is intimately connected with every state in the country. So, this could be very dangerous. I think it is totally disqualifying for anyone who seeks to lead the major health agency in this country, and one of the leaders in the world, to unequivocally say there is no safe and effective vaccine,&#8221; Sebelius said.
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Former HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius: Robert Kennedy Nomination &#8220;Could End Up Killing People&#8221;
More &#8211; <a href="https://t.co/ibh55FtC10">https://t.co/ibh55FtC10</a>
&#8220;We are talking about magnitudes of danger beyond erroneously making legal decisions. This is life or death. The HHS affects people from birth to their… <a href="https://t.co/EHmMz3G0N5">pic.twitter.com/EHmMz3G0N5</a>
— RCP Video (@rcpvideo) <a href="https://twitter.com/rcpvideo/status/1858160713220477332?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;That, in and of itself, from the bully pulpit of HHS, could end up killing people,&#8221; she added. &#8220;My grandson is too young to get many vaccinations yet, and having him exposed to unvaccinated people with polio and measles is a terrifying thought, especially after we have eradicated those diseases as a major health initiative. I think this is absolutely terrifying, and people should understand how serious it is.&#8221;
Kennedy, who is pushing a &#8220;Make America Health Again&#8221; twist on Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; platform, has insisted that he supports vaccines in general, as long as they pass sufficient testing.
During a NewsNation town hall in June of 2023 — when Kennedy was still running his own campaign for the presidency — Kennedy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rfk-jr-defends-vaccine-stance-says-democratic-party-has-lost-its-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed back</a> on family medicine physician Tariq Butt&#8217;s assertion that he espoused a view on vaccines that was &#8220;dangerous&#8221; to millions of people.
&#8220;I’ve never been anti-vaccine, and I’ve said that hundreds and hundreds of times but it doesn’t matter &#8230; Using a pejorative to describe me is a way of silencing me or marginalizing me,” Kennedy said. &#8220;My position on vaccines, I think is — I think virtually every American would agree with my stance on vaccines, which is that vaccines should be tested like other medicines. They should be safety tested. And unfortunately, vaccines are not safety tested, they’re not.&#8221;

Obama HHS Sec Loses It Over RFK Jr., Claims He Could ‘End Up Killing People’

Obama Administration

The Biden Administration, concerned about the impact of a bird flu virus (H5N1) that started in late 2020 but infected a Texas dairy worker in April and a Michigan dairy worker in May, is reportedly &#8220;looking closely&#8221; at vaccinating farm workers and others.
On May 10, the Food and Drug Administration <a href="https://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-advisories-safety-information/updates-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-hpai" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, “Last week we announced preliminary results of a study of 297 retail dairy samples, which were all found to be negative for viable virus. The FDA is today announcing that all final egg inoculation tests associated with this retail sampling study have been completed and were also found to be negative for viable HPAI H5N1 virus.”
Yet <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-european-nations-consider-vaccinating-workers-exposed-bird-flu-2024-05-27/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a> reported that U.S. officials acknowledged they were transporting bulk vaccine from CSL Seqirus matching H5N1 that could create 4.8 million doses of vaccine. European health officials also said they were discussing acquiring CSL&#8217;s prepandemic vaccine.
“Human exposures to the virus in poultry and dairy operations could increase the risk that the virus will mutate and gain the ability to spread easily in people,” Reuters stated, adding, “The U.S. is in talks with mRNA vaccine makers Pfizer and about potential pandemic vaccines.”
The Biden administration is “looking closely” at vaccinating farm workers and others exposed to the virus, according to Dawn O&#8217;Connell of the U.S. Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response
“All of our efforts need to be focused on preventing those events from happening,” said Matthew Miller, co-director of the Canadian Pandemic Preparedness Hub at McMaster University. “Once we have widespread infections of humans, we&#8217;re in big trouble.”
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After the second dairy worker was infected in Michigan, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Principal Deputy Director Nirav Shah <a href="https://time.com/6981144/can-i-get-bird-flu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last week, “We have not seen evidence of other cases in this area or elsewhere in any of our monitoring systems, let alone any evidence of human-to-human transmission. This is reassuring.”
“Risk is incredibly low right now,” Andrew Pekosz of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health added. “There is no real evidence of spread from human to human.”

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Biden Administration ‘Looking Closely’ At Vaccinating Farm Workers, Others For Bird Flu

Biden Administration

Bird Flu

On April 24th, a team of FDA-supported scientists published a new study in <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2818033" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JAMA Pediatrics</a> investigating serious adverse events associated with mRNA vaccines in children.
This comprehensive and well-constructed cohort study focused on post-market surveillance of the COVID vaccines in over 4 million children, confirming the well-documented risk of myocarditis — inflammation of the heart muscle — in adolescents 12-17 who take the mRNA COVID vaccines.
However, the most shocking finding was the discovery of a new safety signal which hadn&#8217;t been reported before:
<blockquote>&#8220;In the primary analysis, seizure met the statistical threshold for a signal in children aged 2 to 4 years after BNT162b2 vaccination in all 3 databases and in children aged 2 to 5 years after mRNA-1273 vaccination in 2 of the 3 databases.&#8221;</blockquote>
In other words, the study authors found a statistically significant signal of seizures in children aged 2 to 4 years after the Pfizer vaccine and children 2 to 5 years after the Moderna vaccine.
&#8220;The statistical signal for seizure in children aged 2 to 4 or 5 years has not been previously reported for this age group in active surveillance studies of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines,&#8221; the study states.
More specifically, the study finds a significantly elevated risk of seizures after doses one and two of the Pfizer vaccine in kids ages 2 to 4 and dose two of the Moderna vaccine for kids ages 2 to 5. It&#8217;s worth noting, if this finding was merely incidental and unrelated, it wouldn&#8217;t have been found for both mRNA vaccines. Moreover, the scientists note they couldn&#8217;t identify any &#8220;data quality concerns&#8221; that would compromise or bias the results.
The true scale of seizures caused by mRNA vaccines in kids across the United States (and other countries) is unclear, but it is likely quite concerning.
<h3>1 In 5,000 Risk Of Seizures In Kids Following Vaccination</h3>
To be clear, the absolute number of seizures caused is not alarmingly high. According to the limited data, the rate of vaccine-related seizures in young kids is approximately 1 in 5,000. Put differently, .02% of mRNA-injected kids developed seizures in the first couple of weeks following vaccination.
While it is true this is an extremely small absolute figure, critics are wrong to view such risks as &#8220;rare&#8221; and trivial because the vaccine does not confer any significant benefit in young kids to outweigh such risks. In other words, compared to the extremely low risk of COVID in young children, even a very small number of seizures would sway the risk-benefit analysis towards not getting vaccinated.
The study identifies 72 seizures in kids following vaccination. What benefit did those kids seek to attain? They had a survival rate of more than <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.11.22280963v1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">99.9997%</a> (this statistic is for ages 0 to 19, not 2 to 5 which the seizure signal has appeared in. The survival rate in younger groups would be far higher.)
As my colleague Jay Bhattacharya elaborated, &#8220;the benefits are likely to be small in these groups since nearly 100% of individuals in these groups have already had covid and recovered.&#8221; &#8220;Such recovered immunity provides stronger protection against severe disease on reinfection than the vaccine,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;Even for the first infection, the risk of death from covid infection for adolescents and toddlers is incredibly low,&#8221; he explained.
Yet, the study bizarrely states that &#8220;The US Food and Drug Administration concludes that the known and potential benefits of COVID-19 vaccination outweigh the known and potential risks of COVID-19 infection.&#8221;
How does that make sense when the study itself does not conduct any assessment of the health benefits and harms of the COVID vaccine for toddlers or adolescents?
<h3>My Correspondence With The FDA</h3>
Stunned by the incongruous conclusion of the study, I decided to contact the FDA to ask them how they continue to support COVID vaccination in children absent any supportive risk-reward analyses. I ended up getting in touch with an FDA spokesperson.
To their credit, they decided to engage with me on this contentious topic. I did not expect that. Here was their response to my question on unproven COVID vaccine safety in children: 
<blockquote>&#8220;The focus of this manuscript was the safety of the Ancestral Monovalent BNT162b2, mRNA-1273, and NVX-CoV2373 COVID-19 vaccines in U.S. children aged 6 Months to 17 years, so we focused on the fact that the vaccine was safe.&#8221;</blockquote>
Wait, what?
I had to read this over a couple of times because I was so perplexed by this sentence.
The explicitly stated objective of the study was &#8220;To conduct near-real-time monitoring of health outcomes after COVID-19 vaccination in the US pediatric population.&#8221;
As a result, they decided to focus on the opinion, not &#8220;fact,&#8221; that &#8220;the vaccine was safe&#8221;?
This is essentially like saying, &#8220;The focus of our work was to clean the house so we focused on the fact that the house was clean.&#8221; Unless I&#8217;m tripping, my BS meter was already ringing. Only to make matters worse, they went on to say:
<blockquote>&#8220;The benefits of the vaccine have been reported elsewhere, which include, but are not limited to the reduced incidence of medically diagnosed and hospital and emergency department diagnosed COVID-19, as reported here: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11047006/">Effectiveness of BNT162b2 COVID-19 primary series vaccination in children aged 5–17 years in the United States: a cohort study &#8211; PMC (nih.gov)</a>.&#8221;</blockquote>
This cited study has numerous issues. For one, the study population is 5 to 17-year-olds, not 2 to 5-year-olds which is the cohort for whom the risk of seizures was found. So how can the FDA use this as their primary evidentiary source to support vaccination in young kids?
Moreover, the cited study on vaccine effectiveness in children aged 5 &#8211; 17 may be severely compromised by incidental COVID cases. A number of estimates <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11027788/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have shown</a> that 40 &#8211; 60% of COVID hospitalizations are incidental (the cause of the hospitalization was unrelated to the positive COVID test result).
Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, epidemiologist and vaccine myocarditis researcher, stated, &#8220;Even for that tiny numerical difference in rates most of those are probably incidental hospitalizations and so the chance to benefit is so small and could easily all be explained by transient healthy vaccine effect mostly attributable to hospitalization with and not for covid.&#8221;
&#8220;We would have needed a very large randomized study among children to know what the real effect, if any, of the vaccine was. I would not rely on the results of this study,&#8221; she added.
I emailed back the FDA, highlighting these concerns, and they took a few days because the spokesperson was working on the response (I followed up a couple of times). I thought they were going to address my concerns point by point with honest transparency.
Well, they fooled me.
I got an email back from the FDA with the most frustratingly cookie-cutter, generic response possible:
<blockquote>“The FDA is confident in the safety and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines approved or authorized for use in the U.S. The vaccines’ benefit-risk profiles are well understood and demonstrate that the known and potential benefits for individuals 6 months of age and older outweigh their risks.
With over a billion doses administered, we have data from real-world use of these vaccines demonstrating that the benefits of getting vaccinated, which include a clear reduction in hospitalization and death, outweigh potential risks.
Further information related to the FDA’s conclusions regarding benefit-risk assessment can be found within the respective decision and review memoranda available on FDA’s website here.”</blockquote>
And that&#8217;s that.
This is an illustrative, real-time example of what I told Russell Brand once &#8220;when the narrative trumps the facts.&#8221; They initially engaged with me, seemingly in earnest, but we came to a point where I was questioning the unquestionable. I collided with the sacred orthodoxy of &#8220;vaccines are safe and effective for kids&#8221; driven by a toxic cocktail of political, financial, pharmaceutical, and quasi-scientific institutional interests.
The plain reality is COVID vaccines were never necessary or proven to be safe and effective to administer in children on a mass scale.
Even the most zealous mRNA advocates admitted, when faced with pediatric vaccine hesitancy, that the primary purpose of vaccinating young kids was to protect adults and the elderly.
This was a fundamental error from the start because dosing kids with the mRNAs was nothing as safe as dosing them with apple sauce or vitamin D. There were serious safety concerns from the start, some substantiated by the data and others unclear, but the FDA and the CDC should have never mass-recommended the COVID vaccines as an urgent, essential intervention for children who had a near-zero infection fatality rate.
The true scale of harm from seizures and other serious adverse events is unknown. As Johns Hopkins researcher Dr. Marty Makary once said, &#8220;A baby can&#8217;t tell you they have myocarditis&#8221; (let alone subclinical myocarditis which does not produce any symptoms).
<h3>“Child Sacrifice”</h3>
Coincidentally,  Joe Rogan recently <a href="https://youtu.be/0r23Hzu6VPw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brought up</a> the travesty of mass mRNA child vaccination in a conversation with comedian Deric Poston, and referred to it as a “child sacrifice.”
Provocative but far from hyperbolic, that is exactly how public health treated children. In the name of &#8220;protecting the elderly&#8221; or &#8220;herd immunity,&#8221; they neglected and sacrificed the health of young children, who had the least to gain and most to suffer, with the experimental mRNA shots.
As we are finding out now, the potentiality of harm that was feared by the unhinged &#8220;conspiracy theorists&#8221; (which is what I thought), is coming to bear as more and more serious side effects emerge and indict the corrupt regulatory agencies and public health authorities who pushed the shots with unwavering religious zeal.
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Rav Arora is a 22-year-old journalist based in Vancouver covering free speech, Big Pharma, Covid mandates, and totalitarianism. His work has appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience, The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, and The Ben Shapiro Show, among other major platforms. Follow his Substack newsletter with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: <a href="https://www.illusionconsensus.com/">The Illusion Of Consensus.</a>
This article originally appeared on Substack on &#8220;<a href="https://www.illusionconsensus.com/p/new-fda-study-reports-elevated-post">Illusion of Consensus</a>.&#8221;
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

A Covid-19 Vaccination Site As Children Under 5-Years Old Become Eligible For Shot

New FDA Study Reports Elevated Post-Vaccination Seizure Risk In Toddlers

Children

COVID

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Readers Pass

The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/health/covid-vaccines-side-effects.html?searchResultPosition=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an article</a> this week recounting the horrors some people have experienced after getting the COVID vaccine, and their inability to get help from doctors or vaccine injury compensation programs. But are these complications and side effects a result of the vaccines?
The Times article begins by acknowledging, “&#8230;even the best vaccines produce rare but serious side effects,” and that over 270 million Americans have taken the jab.
Through the course of multiple interviews, the Times investigation revealed that the harm caused by the vaccines can vary greatly. In one example, a woman with a Ph.D. in neuroscience who took the vaccine was eventually diagnosed with brain damage. She can no longer work or drive, and, at age 40, is back living with her parents. Another woman interviewed by the Times experienced Bell’s Palsy, or partial facial paralysis, and shingles on half her face.
In another instance, a nurse practitioner named Sean Barcavage said since taking the first shot, his heart now begins to race every time he stands up. He also now has tinnitus. “I went from being a 100% healthy, fully functioning nurse into a complete downward spiral of health. I had a myriad of symptoms,” said Barcavage.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire/trump-s-vp-audition-vaccine-injury-acknowledgement-5-7-24" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LISTEN: Morning Wire&#8217;s report on vaccine injury</a></h4>
While each person experienced symptoms they believe were caused by the vaccine, the side effects were not uniform. What is uniform, however, is the way in which their concerns were dismissed by doctors and the federal government.
As the Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cdc-adds-covid-vax-to-routine-immunization-schedules-for-both-children-and-adults" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously reported</a>, there had been nearly 13,000 claims filed with the vaccine compensation program alleging harm caused by the pandemic response, with more than 10,000 of those claims citing the vaccine as causing injury or death.
The government, which has just 35 people looking into the claims, had only determined that 40 claims were eligible for compensation, and just 11 were actually compensated, with an average compensation of around $3,600. That was in February, and the numbers haven’t moved much since. Now, 47 have been deemed eligible and 12 have been paid out, still with that low compensation average. A very small number of people. 
As the Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/health/covid-vaccines-side-effects.html?searchResultPosition=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">points out</a>, “Some scientists fear that patients with real injuries are being denied help and believe that more needs to be done to clarify the possible risks.” 
But it’s not just the New York Times talking about this issue. 
Others are starting to acknowledge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/largest-covid-vax-study-to-date-finds-higher-than-expected-increase-in-heart-and-brain-issues-following-jab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the harm</a> caused by the vaccines — even some who were at the forefront of the COVID response are now acknowledging that many were in fact harmed by the vaccines. Dr. Ashish Jha, the Biden administration’s COVID coordinator in 2022 and 2023, <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/cuomo-show/vaccine-side-effects-censorship-drove-vaccine-hesitancy-nurse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told NewsNation</a> that people who were harmed by the vaccines must be taken seriously.
“I worry a little bit that what has happened is we&#8217;ve gotten caught in the sort of politics of this,&#8221; said Dr. Jha. &#8220;&#8230;because as you know, there are a lot of people who&#8217;ve become very anti-vaccine. And so that means that a lot of doctors see these patients and worry that if they acknowledge that person suffering, that somehow they&#8217;re becoming anti-vaccine themselves. I&#8217;m very pro-vaccines. I got them. Everyone in my family got them. Still, I think we have to acknowledge this that is not just happening among doctors is happening inside the government. We just have to do better.”
And Chris Cuomo, who famously emerged from his basement after quarantining for COVID, also said in an interview with Barcavage that he had long-term issues from the vaccine, and <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/cuomo-show/vaccine-side-effects-censorship-drove-vaccine-hesitancy-nurse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted that people weren’t getting help</a> because of politics. “&#8230;I think there&#8217;s really no incentive to get out in front of this because it&#8217;s just bad PR, right?&#8221; said Cuomo. &#8220;I mean, nobody&#8217;s going to get patted on the back for saying, &#8216;Yeah, Shaun&#8217;s right.&#8217; There&#8217;s, there are side effects on some of the vaccines or all of the vaccines that we should be talking about and figuring out how to treat. And there is long COVID and there&#8217;s lots – nobody wants to say that because it&#8217;s all political now.”
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