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RFK Jr. is a danger to health care in the U.S. — and Canada

Published November 20, 2024

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Published by: Ottawa Citizen
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By Raywat Deonandan

You would think that the return of a Kennedy scion to the White House would be a moment to celebrate, at least for many of a particular political stripe. But the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the new Trump administration has left many aghast, especially doctors, scientists, and educators.

Despite president John F. Kennedy having famously championed the polio vaccine, his nephew, RFK Jr., is an avowed anti-vaccination zealot, blaming a host of repeatedly unproven ills on such inoculations.

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RFK Jr condemned as ‘clear and present danger’ after Trump nomination

Published November 14, 2024

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Published by: The Guardian
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By Maya Yang

Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F Kennedy Jr as US secretary of health and human services has prompted widespread criticisms towards Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist who has embraced a slew of other debunked health-related conspiracy theories.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a long record of promoting anti-vaccine views

Published November 14, 2024

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Published by: The Associated Press
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By Michelle R. Smith

Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was building up a following with his anti-vaccine nonprofit group, Children’s Health Defense, and becoming one of the world’s most influential spreaders of fear and distrust around vaccines.

Now, President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate Kennedy to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, which regulates vaccines.

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Experts Share What Another Trump Presidency Could Mean For Your Health

Published November 11, 2024

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Published by: HuffPost
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By Jillian Wilson

During his last time in office, Trump botched the pandemic response, he spread misinformation everywhere, he contributed to restricting access to reproductive health care, he tried to repeal [the Affordable Care Act] and he set the world back on climate action. For me, it’s extremely worrying to have someone in charge with such a poor track record on health and science.

— Lucky Tran, a science communicator based in New York
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Topic: anti-vaxxersView all posts for the topic: anti-vaxxers

RFK Jr. is crowdsourcing reams of nominees for Trump’s health administration

Published November 8, 2024

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Published by: STAT
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By Isabella Cueto

Between now and Inauguration Day, President-elect Donald Trump and his allies will have the Herculean task of appointing 4,000 people to staff his administration. Trump campaign surrogate and “Make America Healthy Again” flagbearer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seems positioned to exert broad influence on who will run the nation’s health-related agencies. He’s already begun soliciting nominees — albeit in an unconventional way.

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Trump indicates he would consider a ban on vaccines if elected

Published November 4, 2024

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Published by: The Guardian
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By Robert Tait

Donald Trump has suggested vaccines could be banned if he becomes president, in the clearest sign yet of a radical shake-up in public health policy should he put his ally Robert F Kennedy Jr in charge of it.

Trump on Sunday told NBC that Kennedy, the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and former independent candidate who dropped out and endorsed Trump, would have a “big role in the administration” if wins Tuesday’s presidential election. Trump said he would talk to Kennedy about vaccinations.

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An Idaho health department isn’t allowed to give COVID-19 vaccines anymore. Experts say it’s a first

Published November 1, 2024

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Published by: The Associated Press
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By Devi Shastri

A regional public health department in Idaho is no longer providing COVID-19 vaccines to residents in six counties after a narrow decision by its board.

Southwest District Health appears to be the first in the nation to be restricted from giving COVID-19 vaccines. Vaccinations are an essential function of a public health department.

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RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says

Published October 31, 2024

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Published by: The Associated Press
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By Michelle R. Smith

A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.

Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.

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Trump transition team co-chair endorses Kennedy anti-vax theories and says he would be able to access health data

Published October 31, 2024

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Published by: CNN
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By Shania Shelton

The co-chair of the Trump-Vance transition team on Wednesday night endorsed vaccine conspiracy theories pushed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and suggested the activist and Trump ally would be given federal data in order to check vaccines’ safety if former President Donald Trump is elected.

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BC Conservative Leader John Rustad Suggests Province Would Participate in ‘Nuremberg’-Style COVID-19 Trials

Published October 6, 2024

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By Luke LeBrun

BC Conservative leader John Rustad assured anti-vaccine activists British Columbia would be open to joining other jurisdictions in legal proceedings inspired by the Nuremberg Trials that would be aimed at prosecuting those deemed responsible for COVID-19 public health measures and vaccines.

“Nuremberg 2.0,” an idea popular among COVID-19 conspiracy theorists and the online far-right, is simultaneously inspired by the Nuremberg Code, a set of ethical principles on human experimentation, as well as the Nuremberg Trials that prosecuted Nazi leaders after the Second World War.

Nuremberg 2.0 advocates typically call for those who created, justified or enforced public health measures — including politicians, doctors, academics, journalists and police — to be jailed and even executed for “crimes against humanity.”

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Alberta premier’s support for town hall questioning COVID vaccines worries experts

Published May 20, 2024

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Published by: Global News
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By Carolyn Kury de Castillo

The issue is not that there is a difference of opinion here. It’s that there is a huge amount of science that shows that these vaccines save lives and they are overwhelmingly safe so to claim otherwise becomes a statement of misinformation.

— Blake Murdoch, senior research associate with the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Law
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Florida is swamped by disease outbreaks as quackery replaces science

Published March 3, 2024

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Published by: The Guardian
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By Richard Luscombe

Shortly before Joseph Ladapo was sworn in as Florida’s surgeon general in 2022, the New Yorker ran a short column welcoming the vaccine-skeptic doctor to his new role, and highlighting his advocacy for the use of leeches in public health.

It was satire of course, a teasing of the Harvard-educated physician for his unorthodox medical views, which include a steadfast belief that life-saving Covid shots are the work of the devil, and that opening a window is the preferred treatment for the inhalation of toxic fumes from gas stoves.

But now, with an entirely preventable outbreak of measles spreading across Florida, medical experts are questioning if quackery really has become official health policy in the nation’s third most-populous state.

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Public health officials detail threats, changed landscape post-pandemic

Published December 11, 2023

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Published by: CIDRAP
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By Stephanie Soucheray

Public health leaders, including state commissioners and directors, and frontline health workers experienced threats to their well-being and safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to up to 30% to step down, retire, or leave the field, according to a recent study in Public Health in Practice.

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Conspiracy theories are popular in Canada, especially among conservatives: poll

Published December 3, 2023

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By Sarah Ritchie

The Earth is flat. We have been secretly contacted by intelligent beings from other planets. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did not land on the moon in 1969. They may sound like bizarre statements, but a new poll suggests a sizable number of Canadians believe in these and other conspiracy theories.

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Fact Check: Iceland has not banned COVID vaccines

Published December 1, 2023

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Published by: Reuters
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By Reuters Fact Check

A headline shared online falsely claims that Iceland has banned COVID-19 vaccines and cites sudden deaths for which there is no evidence, according to the Icelandic national health authority.

Iceland has not banned COVID vaccines and “there are no soaring sudden deaths,” Guðrún Aspelund, chief epidemiologist at the Icelandic Directorate of Health, told Reuters in a Nov. 29 email.

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‘Endemic’ SARS-CoV-2 and the death of public health

Published November 6, 2023

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SARS-CoV-2 is now circulating out of control worldwide. The only major limitation on transmission is the immune environment the virus faces. The disease it causes, COVID‑19, is now a risk faced by most people as part of daily life.

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COVID-19 et climat : Contrer les mécanismes du déni par un vaccin démocratique

Published August 22, 2020

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Published by: L’actualité
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By Karel Mayrand

Whether it’s about COVID or the climate, conspiracy theories are the sign of a deep evil: the weakening of democracy.

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