
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has no medical background and no experience running a large agency. (Photo: Encyclopedia Britannica).
Activist and vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy, whom Trump has nominated to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) despite his having no experience in public health, formally petitioned (pdf) the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in May of 2021 to revoke the Emergency Use Authorization for Covid vaccines at a time when thousands of Americans were dying weekly from Covid infections.
Kennedy also demanded FDA change its guidance to encourage the use of ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug, and hyroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug, to fight the virus instead. Studies by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found these drugs were ineffective and even dangerous when used to try to treat Covid-19. In contrast, by May 9, 2021, NIH found that the rapid rollout of Covid vaccines had already saved almost 140,000 lives in the U.S. The vaccines have been credited with helping end the pandemic in the U.S.
Just six months before Kennedy demanded the FDA stop the use of Covid vaccines, Trump had called Covid vaccines “an American medical miracle.”
New Covid cases declined dramatically after the vaccines were introduced. As of June 3, 2021, at a time when about half the country had already been vaccinated for the virus, new Covid cases had decreased by 94% and hospitalizations and deaths from the disease dropped dramatically.
RFK, Jr. is an environmental attorney with no formal background in medicine, public health, virology, epidemiology, medical research or any other medical field. He also has no experience running large agencies.
DHHS has over 83,000 employees across the country and around the world, and in 2024 had a budget of $1.7 trillion.
While running for president in 2023, RFK, Jr. said he would stop NIH from studying infectious diseases for 8 years and have the agency concentrate solely on chronic diseases, like obesity and diabetes, instead.
RFK, Jr. is a longtime promoter of public health disinformation
Encyclopedia Brittanica says of RFK, Jr.,
“In 2005 [RFK, Jr.] penned an op-ed article in Rolling Stone and Salon that purported a link between autism and thimerosal, a mercury-containing antiseptic used in some vaccines. The article ignored data that indicated otherwise, and it was later removed from the publications’ websites. In 2011 Salon issued a retraction that said the theory had been thoroughly debunked in the years that followed the article’s publication, and that the theory, which Kennedy has continued to endorse despite research pointing overwhelmingly to the contrary, had become ‘dangerous’ to propagate.”
In July of 2023, RFK, Jr. claimed without evidence that the Chinese developed the Covid-19 virus to disproportionately attack Caucasians and Black people and spare Chinese and Jewish people:
I know that details mean nothing around here…but what Kennedy was lobbying for was better testing into the efficacy and safety of the Covid 19 vaccine. It was approved of during an emergency and once the emergency had passed, Kennedy wanted more research to be done.
I do find it humorous that Anne seems to endorse Trump’s vaccine while at the same time saying Trump was responsible for the deaths of millions.
And finally, a medical background is not required to be the head of HHS. Kathleen Sibelius, during the Obama administration, is just one example of someone who lacked a medical background.
Seriously, can you take a breath without lying?
“Robert F Kennedy Jr reportedly sought to block the historic and pioneering new Covid-19 vaccinations in 2021, six months after they began being rolled out at the height of the pandemic when many thousands of people were dying of the virus.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/18/rfk-jr-covid-19-vaccinations
Also, Sibelius was the Kansas State Insurance Commissioner – overseeing Health Care Insurance as well as other types. A better choice than BrainWorm Von BearKiller.