Summary

The nomination of anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as U.S. health secretary under Donald Trump has alarmed global health experts, who fear it could undermine vaccination efforts and public health globally.

Kennedy has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation, which critics warn could reduce immunization rates, risking outbreaks of preventable diseases like measles.

His plans to reform U.S. health agencies and tackle “corruption” could disrupt institutions like the FDA, while Trump’s broader policies may include withdrawing from the WHO and reinstating abortion funding bans.

Concerns also extend to potential trade wars affecting medicine supplies.

  • @btaf45
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    214 hours ago

    Dear Trump voters:

    Congratulations. You just destroyed our Department of Health. You realize this is just as likely to kill you as us right? Probably even more so because we will be on our guard.

    • @pyre
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      127 seconds ago

      did you ask if Republican voters realize something? realization requires using your brain, something that would’ve prevented them from voting Republican in the first place

  • @[email protected]
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    64 hours ago

    I’d like to fit in with this new America I’ve found myself in. What’s the best way to spread polio to these people who so desperately desire it?

  • @[email protected]
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    23 hours ago

    If Trump can finally convince all major industries to move out of the USA maybe the world will improve

  • @wurzelgummidge
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    34 hours ago

    Well at least you won’t have to waste money on expensive bombs and stuff. Just give the money to your oligarchs and send your troops off to breath on the enemy.

    • @[email protected]
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      119 minutes ago

      With the guy that’s going to be defense secretary saying “I don’t see germs, so they aren’t real” maybe it could be the opposite.

      I don’t also see ionizing radiations, so they definitely aren’t real, maybe let him taste some polonium tea

      Also the irony of a Christian fundamentalist saying that because something can’t be seen, then it can’t be real

  • @iAvicenna
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    7 hours ago

    the guy endorses raw milk on a time when non infectious avian flu viral particles are found in pasteurised supermarket milk. he is the walking embodiment of disaster.

  • FuglyDuck
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    359 hours ago

    “Could”…

    Try… “Will”

  • The Pantser
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    107 hours ago

    Brain worms for everyone!

  • @SendMePhotos
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    78 hours ago

    I mean… Cull the herd I guess…

    • RubberDuck
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      57 hours ago

      Isn’t he also against antidepressants

      • Flying SquidM
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        146 hours ago

        He literally thinks they cause school shootings.

        Also, he thinks AIDS is caused by gay people partying, not a virus. I’m not kidding.

  • Ogmios
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    -557 hours ago

    More or less disastrous than locking everyone in their homes for two years, stunting an entire generation’s early childhood development, and decimating the credibility of the medical industry. Which came, of course, after getting an entire other generation hooked on opioids.