'Don’t take medical advice...’: US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr responds to question on vaccinating his children

US wellness caput Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told lawmakers connected Wednesday that Americans “should not beryllium taking aesculapian advice” from him, reports quality bureau Reuters. Kennedy defended occupation cuts nether the Trump medication and his arguable vaccine remarks during his archetypal quality earlier Congress.Being a long-time professional of vaccines, Kennedy was grilled by some the House Appropriations Committee and the Senate HELP Committee during back-to-back hearings. His remarks came amid a measles outbreak that has infected implicit 1,000 radical and led to 3 deaths, mostly among the unvaccinated.When asked if helium would springiness his children the measles vaccine today, Kennedy replied, “Measles? Probably for measles, what I would accidental is my opinions astir vaccines are irrelevant. I don’t deliberation radical should beryllium taking advice, aesculapian advice, from me.”

The hearings were meant to reappraisal US President Donald Trump’s projected 2026 wellness budget. Kennedy was confirmed successful February and has already fired 10,000 unit crossed cardinal agencies, including the FDA and CDC. He has besides supported slashing $18 cardinal from the National Institutes of Health and $3.6 cardinal from the CDC, claiming the changes would “save taxpayers $1.8 cardinal per year.”“Our reductions person focused connected aligning HHS staffing levels to bespeak the size of HHS anterior to the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw astir a 15% incre...