IN A move that sent ripples through the public health community, President-elect Donald Trump announced his choice of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - a man renowned for his controversial stance on vaccines - as his pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Trump said after his landslide victory that he would let Kennedy "go wild" on health, food and medicine.
Around the same time, Kennedy controversially said that the future Trump administration would end the Food and Drug Administration's "aggressive suppression" of vitamins, raw milk, stem cells and certain drugs.
This decision left many in the medical world gasping in disbelief, and reaching for their own medicines for stress, if nothing else.
Kennedy, who has long argued that vaccines are linked to a range of health issues (including, but not limited to, autism), didn't shy away from controversy in his new role.
Kennedy said he is going to let people make individual assessments of scientific studies and efficacy for vaccines despite all the safety evidence.
He has famously referred to the COVID-19 vaccine as "the deadliest vaccine ever made", despite mountains of data showing it's overwhelmingly safe, and saves lives.
But don't worry folks - apparently, he is not against vaccines entirely - he is just against, well, most of them.
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