Politico December 17, 2024
Public health officials see promise in some of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plans to prevent chronic disease but despair at his vaccine conspiracy theories.
There’s a dilemma facing the public health establishment: It sees Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s focus on root causes of chronic disease as long overdue — and key to reversing America’s place as the world’s least healthy wealthy country.
But they fear Kennedy, who is making the case to senators this week that they should confirm him as President-elect Donald Trump’s health secretary, could also cause an explosion in infectious disease — the kind vaccines protect against.
Nearly a dozen researchers and public health officials who spoke with POLITICO see in Kennedy a chance to improve Americans’...
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