HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. . will testify before the Senate Finance Committee tomorrow about his Make America Healthy Again agenda, but he is very likely to face questions about the firing of the CDC director, the resignations at the agency, and his vaccine related changes.MSNBC senior reporter Brandy Zadrasny is going to join us. Our Nightcap is also still with us. Brandy, you have been covering the issue of vaccines and RFK Jr.. for a while now. So when the senators question him tomorrow on issue ...

Vaccine Efficacy and Impact - Vaccines in 2021 were shown to reduce the likelihood of hospitalization and death by a factor of 12 compared to being unvaccinated [2] - Vaccines are estimated to have saved between 2 million and 3 million American lives [2] - Approximately 200,000 to 250,000 individuals who chose not to get vaccinated may have faced fatal consequences [3] - The primary goal of the COVID vaccine is to prevent serious illness, including hospitalization, ICU admission, and death, rather than preventing mild or moderate illness [5] Concerns Regarding Vaccine Availability and Public Perception - There are concerns that manufacturers like Eli Lilly and Pfizer may face production impacts [3] - The current Secretary of Health and Human Services is viewed as an antivaccine activist, potentially impacting vaccine availability, affordability, and public trust [4] - The Secretary of Health and Human Services has been accused of making false statements about the measles vaccine, including claims that it causes deaths, blindness, and deafness [7] - The removal of 17 members from the advisory committee of humanization practices and their replacement with less experienced individuals raises concerns about the quality of information from the ACIP and CDC [9] Alternative Information Sources - Due to concerns about information from the ACIP and CDC, people are turning to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology for reliable vaccine information [10]

I remember this NYT headline very vividly. It marked the last time I ever retained any scintilla of trust, respect or deference to whatever excrement pours out of a “public health” hole.Steve Semmelweis (@SteveSemmelweis):@politico wonder why https://t.co/y0b8chYQuu ...

Crowds of current and former CDC staffers and their supporters lined the streets of Atlanta yesterday to recognize the officials who resigned in protest after the ousting of CDC director Susan Manarez. Now, we're learning more about more details about what led to that firing and to the exodus that followed. As NS NBC News reports, an escalating conflict over an influential vaccine committee was one of the final straws.Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. . had reconstituted the committe ...

I want to bring in NBC's Gabe Gutierrez who covers the White House. Dr. . Kavita Patel served as policy director in the Obama administration and is an MSNBC medical contributor.Sam Stein is an MSNBC contributor and managing editor at the Bull Work. With me here in studio, MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin. So, Gabe, um this could be the shortest serving CDC director of all time.Uh Trump picked her himself just a couple of months ago. at that time he called her an incredible mother and dedicated public se ...

It is day 220 of the second Trump administration and we are following some serious breaking news that the head of the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. . Susan Monarez, has been fired. Earlier this evening, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that Dr.. Manarez is quote no longer director of the CDC. She was confirmed by the Senate less than a month ago. The Washington Post reports she was pressed for days by HHS Secretary Robert F.Kennedy Jr. ., administration lawyers and other officials ov ...

Over two million lives have been saved because of mRNA technology. It helped us develop CO 19 vaccines in record time. People are going to die because we're cutting short funding for this technology. People are going to die because we are cutting short funding for this technology.That person is Dr. . Jerome Adams. If he looks familiar to you at all, that's because he was surgeon general in Donald Trump's first presidential term, saying now that people are going to die because of a newlyannounced decision by ...

Government Policy & Public Health - Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba pledged to boost public health protections [1] - The pledge comes as Japan grapples with a severe heat wave [1] - The heat wave has seen the national temperature record broken twice in recent days [1]

RFK Jr.'s slashing of funds for medical research jeopardizes the White House's stated goal of improving public health (via @opinion) https://t.co/ypf80SGvXH ...

All right. So, out of all of Trump's crazy decisions since retaking office, his choice to name vaccine skeptic RFK Jr. ., America's health secretary has held uh excuse me, has had some of the most outsized impact on our day-to-day lives, especially as measles cases in the US hit numbers not seen in more than 30 years.Our brand recently visited um Seminal, Texas to report how measles is tearing through remote West Texas. She writes, quote, "As founder, chairman, and chief counsel of the nonprofit Children's ...