RFK Jr, HHs & MAHA News | Chaos at HHS

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[It is difficult to be much more consistently pro-Trump than Strassel has been for a decade]

“During the Biden years, Republicans skewered Xavier Becerra—a career litigator and politician—as incompetent and unsuited to serve as health and human services secretary. Oh, for the days of mere incompetence.

Donald Trump’s HHS presents something far more absurd. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has married ineptitude to pet obsessions, producing a goat rodeo for the ages. New week, new mess: purgings, resignations, policy reversals, conflicts of interest, elimination of transparency. The agencies Mr. Kennedy oversees—the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health—already had problems after years of politicization and squandered credibility. Now they have problems on RFK levels of testosterone.

… Strip away how one feels about food dyes or processed food, Covid boosters or failed “experts,” and you are still left with a mess.

… One big problem: RFK alone among Mr. Trump’s cabinet members is pursuing his own agenda, not the president’s vision. … Mr. Kennedy? He’s perusing lists of his trial-lawyer friends, deciding whom to award influential government positions.

You’re forgiven if you don’t remember Mr. Trump’s campaign promise to empower Mr. Kennedy’s litigator set.

Performance? Nothing is getting done, in part because Mr. Kennedy can’t put together or keep a team.

… If Mr. Kennedy can’t find anyone to work with, it’s because he’s one of the only Trump cabinet officials who divide the base. The Make America Healthy Movement has gained some steam, mostly because of the Kennedy perch. But if there is a minority of HHS “customers” that gets jazzed by a raw-milk debate, there are many more (including Republicans) who find Mr. Kennedy a quack or would appreciate if he devoted even a few minutes to improving their Medicare experience.

And literally no one feels more confidence right now in the CDC or FDA—since no one knows who is in charge or how they are going to reverse themselves next. You can count Mr. Kennedy’s genuine GOP supporters in the Senate on one hand—even if their colleagues are too chicken to say anything publicly.

… This is overshadowing Trump successes. Are we talking this week about how the administration cut crime in Washington, or GOP plans for housing? No. We are talking about a Kennedy mess.

… Mr. Kennedy’s headlines are of the latter [negative] type, and they are making it too easy for critics to smear the entire administration.

… Mr. Trump presumably has to see that one of his departments looks decidedly unlike the others. And that this situation isn’t going to improve or settle down. The question is how long he allows this exercise in political self-harm to continue. The president honored a rival’s endorsement by giving him a top job. But no cabinet position is a sinecure, and Mr. Kennedy has had his trial run. There are plenty of other bold transformers that can take that job. Maybe it’s time for some interviews.“
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Knives out.
 
nycfan said:


“… did your department do any data analysis of how many new cases of these diseases there will be with no vaccine mandates?

JOSEPH LADAPO: Absolutely not

TAPPER: You didn't even do a projection?

LADAPO: It's an issue of right and wrong…”



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What do you expect from the DEI hire of a DEI graduate of a woke medical school?

@Ramrouser @Callatoroy - did I do that right?
 
Geisterfahrer said:
Knives out.
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I think some of the smarter Trumpers - and there are some who are smart enough to still know reality but are going along with Trumpism for grifting or political agenda reasons (and these people are horrible, btw) - are well aware that what Republicans are doing to medical and healthcare research and vaccines and other things is going to end in disaster, and that - most importantly for them - not even their wealth or power or prominence may save them from deadly viruses or germs, so they're turning against RFK, Jr. and Ladapo and these other nutcases and want them gone. The problem is that when you support Trumpism you can't just pick and choose, you get all of the crazy in every area all of the time.

Not that I have any sympathy for them, but as healthcare is important I guess in this instance I'll take any help in getting rid of these frauds and loons that I can get.
 
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'I'm shocked': CNN host stunned as Florida official makes admission about vaccine ban

CNN host Jake Tapper said he was "shocked" after Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo admitted he did not do any data analysis before banning vaccine mandates."I'm looking at this report from your department from April, showing that more people in Florida are seeking religious exemptions for...
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"I'm looking at this report from your department from April, showing that more people in Florida are seeking religious exemptions for vaccines," Tapper told Ladapo in a Sunday interview on CNN. "And at the same time, Florida is seeing rising cases of hepatitis A and whooping cough and chicken pox."

"This is in your own report, your own department's report," the host noted. "Before you made this decision to try to lift vaccine mandates for Florida, which include, obviously, public schools, did your department do any data analysis?"
"Did you do any data projection of how many new cases of these diseases there will be in Florida once you remove vaccine mandates?"

"Absolutely not," Ladapo insisted. "In terms of, you know, like analysis, well, ultimately, this is an issue very clearly of parents' rights. So do I need to analyze whether it's appropriate for parents to be able to decide what goes into the children's bodies? I don't need to do an analysis on that."
 
evrheel said:
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'I'm shocked': CNN host stunned as Florida official makes admission about vaccine ban

CNN host Jake Tapper said he was "shocked" after Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo admitted he did not do any data analysis before banning vaccine mandates."I'm looking at this report from your department from April, showing that more people in Florida are seeking religious exemptions for...
www.rawstory.com www.rawstory.com

"I'm looking at this report from your department from April, showing that more people in Florida are seeking religious exemptions for vaccines," Tapper told Ladapo in a Sunday interview on CNN. "And at the same time, Florida is seeing rising cases of hepatitis A and whooping cough and chicken pox."

"This is in your own report, your own department's report," the host noted. "Before you made this decision to try to lift vaccine mandates for Florida, which include, obviously, public schools, did your department do any data analysis?"
"Did you do any data projection of how many new cases of these diseases there will be in Florida once you remove vaccine mandates?"

"Absolutely not," Ladapo insisted. "In terms of, you know, like analysis, well, ultimately, this is an issue very clearly of parents' rights. So do I need to analyze whether it's appropriate for parents to be able to decide what goes into the children's bodies? I don't need to do an analysis on that."
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The GOP has been very effective in their messaging for a good while, and in framing issues in the way they want. This whole "parental control" nonsense is just the latest example. Of course parents have certain rights in terms of their child's education and medicine, but as parents they are also US citizens and part of a larger community so they also have responsibilities as citizens. And one of those is - or ought to be - protecting not only their children but other people's kids from deadly diseases. If you want your child to attend a public school then they should be immunized, otherwise you can do homeschooling or some such. "Parental Control" has become the GOP byword for forcing conservative religion into public schools while simultaneously defunding them for vouchers, charters, etc. ("school choice"), and for parents being able to deny vaccines or any other medical treatments despite any dangers involved. They've been very successful at framing public debates to their favor - after all, who could be against parental choice?
 
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In Florida, all dogs, cats, and ferrets four months of age or older are legally required to have a current rabies vaccination administered by a licensed veterinarian. For pets entering Florida from another state, you must have an official Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (health certificate) dated within 30 days of issuance, along with proof of a current rabies vaccination if the animal is three months or older.

Chapter 828 Section 30 - 2011 Florida Statutes - The Florida Senate

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“For all of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s high-profile moves over the last few weeks, a new report from the “Make America Healthy Again” commission he leads released Tuesday arrived with little fanfare — or teeth.

… It stops short of calling for direct restrictions on pesticides and ultraprocessed foods, which Mr. Kennedy has called major threats. The strategy suggests collaboration — not confrontation — with the food and agriculture industries, saying that the government will back “precision agricultural techniques” to help farmers use less pesticides. After The Times reported on the draft, some members of the MAHA movement expressed frustration at what they saw as signs of Mr. Kennedy’s capitulations to these industries.

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Other significant parts of the strategy are at odds with actions the administration has taken. For example, the report calls for providing “whole, healthy food” through the government-funded SNAP nutrition program for low-income Americans — but Mr. Trump signed legislation this year that significantly cut SNAP funding. It also suggests prioritizing research and analysis of the health effects of poor water and air quality, but the administration has abandoned major pollution regulations.

There are also places where the report’s goals conflict with each other. For example, it says the government will “review new scientific information on the potential health risks of fluoride in drinking water,” but also identifies poor oral health and childhood cavities — which fluoride in drinking water helps prevent, according to decades of research — as potential causes of chronic disease. It says the C.D.C. will issue new recommendations on fluoride in water, which Mr. Kennedy has called dangerous despite the fact that most U.S. water supplies fall well within what scientists consider safe fluoride limits.

The report contains a few bold ideas, but not always a clear path to implementing them. The document suggests the government will crack down on direct-to-consumer advertising for prescription drugs, and calls for closing the so-called “GRAS” loophole, a provision that lets companies put new chemicals or ingredients into food products as long as they are “generally recognized as safe.” It also says the government will consider developing guidelines to limit the ways companies market “unhealthy” foods to children.…”
 


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“… Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary and one of his top deputies, vaccines chief Vinay Prasad, are seeking to waive privacy protections around certain data on Covid vaccines and pregnant women, people familiar with the matter said. That might allow the administration to publicly highlight more detail on what they see as potential harms of the shots, the people said.

… “There have been children who have died from the Covid vaccine. We’re doing a proper investigation,” Makary told CNN. He said the agency would release a report in the coming weeks after interviewing family members and examining autopsies. “We think the public deserves to have that information. It wasn’t released in the last administration and it should have been.”

Studies of the Covid vaccines have shown that serious side effects are rare, and their benefits of preventing hospitalizations and serious illness outweigh risks. Professional societies representing pediatricians and obstetricians continue to recommend them….”
 
finesse said:
In solidarity, since yesterday morning, I've had a flu shot, a pneumonia shot, arranged for a prescription for a Covid shot, had a tetanus shot , and purely by accident, 10 stitches in the top of my head.
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Yikes on the 10 stitches and tetanus shot (assume those were related?)!
 
nycfan said:


🎁—> https://www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-jr-s-goat-rodeo-70dbcb8a?st=Mu9rHg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

[It is difficult to be much more consistently pro-Trump than Strassel has been for a decade]

“During the Biden years, Republicans skewered Xavier Becerra—a career litigator and politician—as incompetent and unsuited to serve as health and human services secretary. Oh, for the days of mere incompetence.

Donald Trump’s HHS presents something far more absurd. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has married ineptitude to pet obsessions, producing a goat rodeo for the ages. New week, new mess: purgings, resignations, policy reversals, conflicts of interest, elimination of transparency. The agencies Mr. Kennedy oversees—the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health—already had problems after years of politicization and squandered credibility. Now they have problems on RFK levels of testosterone.

… Strip away how one feels about food dyes or processed food, Covid boosters or failed “experts,” and you are still left with a mess.

… One big problem: RFK alone among Mr. Trump’s cabinet members is pursuing his own agenda, not the president’s vision. … Mr. Kennedy? He’s perusing lists of his trial-lawyer friends, deciding whom to award influential government positions.

You’re forgiven if you don’t remember Mr. Trump’s campaign promise to empower Mr. Kennedy’s litigator set.

Performance? Nothing is getting done, in part because Mr. Kennedy can’t put together or keep a team.

… If Mr. Kennedy can’t find anyone to work with, it’s because he’s one of the only Trump cabinet officials who divide the base. The Make America Healthy Movement has gained some steam, mostly because of the Kennedy perch. But if there is a minority of HHS “customers” that gets jazzed by a raw-milk debate, there are many more (including Republicans) who find Mr. Kennedy a quack or would appreciate if he devoted even a few minutes to improving their Medicare experience.

And literally no one feels more confidence right now in the CDC or FDA—since no one knows who is in charge or how they are going to reverse themselves next. You can count Mr. Kennedy’s genuine GOP supporters in the Senate on one hand—even if their colleagues are too chicken to say anything publicly.

… This is overshadowing Trump successes. Are we talking this week about how the administration cut crime in Washington, or GOP plans for housing? No. We are talking about a Kennedy mess.

… Mr. Kennedy’s headlines are of the latter [negative] type, and they are making it too easy for critics to smear the entire administration.

… Mr. Trump presumably has to see that one of his departments looks decidedly unlike the others. And that this situation isn’t going to improve or settle down. The question is how long he allows this exercise in political self-harm to continue. The president honored a rival’s endorsement by giving him a top job. But no cabinet position is a sinecure, and Mr. Kennedy has had his trial run. There are plenty of other bold transformers that can take that job. Maybe it’s time for some interviews.“
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Trump said on the outset he was going to give RFK free rein to do as he pleases. So I’d argue RFK is meeting Trump expectations, which ostensibly means, “don’t bother me when it comes to the health and safety of the American people. I do not care one bit.”
 
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finesse said:
In solidarity, since yesterday morning, I've had a flu shot, a pneumonia shot, arranged for a prescription for a Covid shot, had a tetanus shot , and purely by accident, 10 stitches in the top of my head.
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See? Just planning for a COVID shot caused a wound in your head!
 
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“Trump health officials plan to link coronavirus vaccines to the deaths of 25 children as they consider limiting which Americans should get theshots, according to four people familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe confidential information.

The findings appear to be based on information submitted to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, which contains unverified reports of side effects or bad experiences with vaccines submitted by anyone, including patients, doctors, pharmacists or even someone who sees a report on social media. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emphasizes that the database is not designed to assess whether a shot caused a death, a conclusion that requires thorough investigations by scientists and public health professionals.


Trump health officials plan to include the pediatric deaths claim in a presentation next week to an influential panel of advisers to the CDC that is considering new coronavirus vaccine recommendations, which affect access to the shots and whether they’re free.…”
 
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