Trump’s Choices for Health Agencies Suggest a Shake-Up Is Coming

The New York Times ^ | Nov. 24, 2024, 1:19 p.m. ET | Emily Anthes and Emily Baumgaertner Published Nov. 23, 2024Updated

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A longtime leader of the anti-vaccine movement. A highly credentialed surgeon. A seven-term Florida congressman. A Fox News contributor with her own line of vitamins.

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s eclectic roster of figures to lead federal health agencies is almost complete — and with it, his vision for a sweeping overhaul is coming into focus.

Mr. Trump’s choices have varying backgrounds and public health views. But they have all pushed back against Covid policies or supported ideas that are outside the medical mainstream, including an opposition to vaccines. Together, they are a clear repudiation of business as usual.

“What they’re saying when they make these appointments is that we don’t trust the people who are there,” said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and an adviser to the Food and Drug Administration.

Some doctors and scientists are bracing themselves for the gutting of public health agencies, a loss of scientific expertise and the injection of politics into realms once reserved for academics. The result, they fear, could be worse health outcomes, more preventable deaths and a reduced ability to respond to looming health threats, like the next pandemic. “I’m very, very worried about the way that this all plays out,” Dr. Offit said.

But other experts who expressed concerns about anti-vaccine views at the helms of the nation’s health agencies said that some elements of the picks’ unorthodox approaches were welcomed. After a pandemic that closed schools across the country and killed more than one million Americans, many people have lost faith in science and medicine, surveys show. And even some prominent public health experts were critical of the agencies’ Covid missteps and muddled messaging on masks and testing.

[dljordan]

What genius.

[SoConPubbie]

Ya think????

[Responsibility2nd]

After a pandemic that closed schools across the country and killed more than one million Americans, many people have lost faith in science and medicine, surveys show. And even some prominent public health experts were critical of the agencies’ Covid missteps and muddled messaging on masks and testing.

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Actually I had lost faith in science and medicine long before Covid.

But isn’t it interesting that The Slimes actually admits to....

“Covid missteps and muddled messaging”.

[TexasGator]

“A longtime leader of the anti-vaccine movement.”

RFKJR is not anti-vaccine.

[TexasGator]

“Actually I had lost faith in science and medicine long before Covid.”

Yea, really ...

[Brandonmark]

”… we don’t trust the people who are there,”

Ya think?

[GnuThere]

“What they’re saying when they make these appointments is that we don’t trust the people who are there.”

Wow, can’t get anything past Dr. Offit!

[Brian Griffin]

““What they’re saying when they make these appointments is that we don’t trust the people who are there,”

Ronald Reagan:

“Trust, but verify”

[chajin]

And from the embassy in Jerusalem, lobbying for Relaxium.

[Brian Griffin]

While I don’t think RFK Jr. should have been given the whole of HHS, I do think he will fight childhood illnesses and to improve pharmaceuticals & food.

If the so-called experts correctly think childhood vaccines are safe, then they need not worry.

[Nextrush]

“Anti-Pharma Cartel” one of the cartels that bought Mitch McConnell IMHO.

[MayflowerMadam]

“RFKJR is not anti-vaccine.”

True. But the media continues to say that to portray him as a kook.

[MayflowerMadam]

“And from the embassy in Jerusalem, lobbying for Relaxium.”

And he’s also hawking Vinia.

I don’t know what else.

[laplata]

True. But the media continues to say that to portray him as a kook.

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And what did you expect?

[Revel]

The NYT’s lying again. Most of these picks are not radical in the slightest. They actually have a history of pushing the vaccine and all of the other nonsense.

[WVNan]

“Actually I had lost faith in science and medicine long before Covid.”

Well that makes at least 2 of us. My first and only vaccine was when I was 5 yr old, Small Pox, and That was the only vaccine I ever hand after that one I declined not to take any more and doctors across America have records of the war created in my denial of a vaccine. I could have one I suppose but I figured having all the childhood deceases, and only a bad cold in winter sometimes. I birthed 4 children and I’ve lived 91 healthy years.

[citizen]

Imo, anyone who posts as many NYTimes articles as you do is not to be trusted.

I move on.

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You really shouldn’t click on them, then.

Do you have a mental issue of some kind?