RFK JR. Doubts over the vaccines, and clash with Democrats to reach the Kofid shot

The Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services Robert F. Kennedy Junior False claims about vaccines He claimed that he does not limit the access to Kofid’s footage during his testimony in the Senate on Thursday, when the members of the Senate distorted his sweeping. Changes in immunization policy Federal health agencies.

Kennedy said he supports a newly appointed member of a member of the main government vaccine committee, which poses a dangerous danger to people. Several studies have shown that the shots that use the Merseuled RNA technology, including Covid vaccines Vizar and accidentIt is safe and effective, and serious side effects have occurred in very rare cases.

The Senator Michael Bennett, extended Calo, indicated that the committee member Dr. Reeb Reefis said that the evidence is escalating that flexible vaccines cause “serious harm, including death, especially among young people,” in reference to what appears to be Publisher installed on the Levi’s X account. Kennedy Levy appointed to the Consulting Committee for Iris -Evidence, which advises the centers of diseases and preventing them from the recommendations of vaccine and insurance coverage.

Kennedy said he was not aware of Levy’s comments, but he added: “I agree with her.”

He also claimed that anyone could get a Kofid enhanced snapshot, with recognition that arrival “depends on the state” and that the government no longer recommends vaccines for healthy people.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new round of long shots with a new border, only to cleanse it for adults between the ages of 65 years or older and people with a medical condition that they have a severe disease. The Center for Disease Control and its vaccine plate will decide from the one who recommends the clips later this month.

“I don’t take them away from people,” Kennedy said, referring to the vaccines.

But Senator Elizabeth Warren, Diam. He argued that everyone could not walk in a pharmacy and get a coffee snapshot now.

The boundaries of the FDA have made the complexity of access to the Kofid shot in the United States, which now depends on the patient’s age, the level of risk, laws and policies in covering the state, insurance and health care. Waiting for CDC guidance, Some pharmacies Covid vaccines have added requirements in some cases.

“You are clearly robbing vaccines,” she said after a long screaming match with Kennedy.

Kennedy’s comments before the Senate Finance Committee after that again and again I promised the painting In January, he will not do anything as HHS minister who makes it more difficult or discourages people from taking vaccines. Since then, he canceled Financing As for the development of democratic rally, it has made other changes in the vaccine policy that can limit access to vaccinations, including overcoming a disease control center vaccine panel and dropping the Covid snapshot recommendations for certain groups.

His comments also follow leadership leadership in diseases and prevention control centers. Last week, the White House launched Susan Monarerez, director of the Center for Disease Control, and four of the senior officials of the agency resigned shortly after, as some indicated the politicization of the agency and a threat to public health. in An article on ThursdayMonares Kennedy was accused of “a deliberate effort to weaken the public health system in America and protect vaccines.”

Kennedy described doubts about Covid vaccines, despite the evidence for its safety and effectiveness.

Kennedy said: “We have repeatedly told us that the vaccines would prevent the transmission of infection, as it prevents the infection. It was not true. They knew it from the beginning,” Kennedy said.

He also said that he did not know the number of people who died from Covid and whether vaccines prevented deaths from the virus.

“I would like to see data and talk about data,” Kennedy said.

But the data is easily available from dozens of studies. One paper in August Covid vaccinations can save more than 2 million people, most of them among the elderly, all over the world between 2020 and October 2024.

the CDC website It also says that Covid vaccines from 2023 to 2024 have reduced the risk of severe Covid disease by approximately 70 % in the first two months after vaccination in adults between 18 years old or older, with a decrease in protection over time.

These shots also reduced the risk of hospitalization due to Covid by about 50 % in the first two months of vaccination in the same population. Covid vaccines showed similar benefits for the elderly.

Kennedy also defended his decision to dismiss all the 17 former members of the Dispond to Disease Control Center, saying that he had not politicized the committee.

“What we did is to get rid of conflicts of interests … … we removed the policy and put great scholars on it from a very diverse group.” “They are very supporters.”

but New analysis It was published last month from USC researchers that the conflict of interests in that committee was “its lowest historical levels” before Kennedy re -directed it with new members, some of whom are critical of a widely known vaccine vaccine.