Kennedy Sought to Stop Covid Vaccinations 6 Months After Rollout

[Ocelot II]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice to lead the nation’s health agencies, formally asked the Food and Drug Administration to revoke the authorization of all Covid vaccines during a deadly phase of the pandemic when thousands of Americans were still dying every week.

Mr. Kennedy filed a petition with the F.D.A. in May 2021 demanding that officials rescind authorization for the shots and refrain from approving any Covid vaccine in the future.

Just six months earlier, Mr. Trump had declared the Covid vaccines a miracle. At the time Mr. Kennedy filed the petition, half of American adults were receiving their shots. Schools were reopening and churches were filling.

Estimates had begun to show that the rapid rollout of Covid vaccines had already saved about 140,000 lives in the United States.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/health/rfk-jr-covid-vaccines.html or https://archive.ph/H9fwz

[FarPoint]

1. This man is soooo dangerous!

And...very fucked up.

[Dave Bowman]

2. That lunatic will enable a catastrophe.

[niyad]

3. Plague take you, you hate-filled, deliberately destructive waste of oxygen.

[cliffside]

4. We cannot forget what happened! "We Ran Out of Space': Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-funeral-home-morgue-bodies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qE4.5myS.U56-5hfu7UL2&smid=url-share


Published April 30, 2020
Updated Nov. 18, 2020

"The 40-foot trailer has been there for weeks, parked outside the Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home in Queens. Its refrigerator hums in an alley next to a check-cashing establishment. Thirty-six bodies, one atop the other, are stacked on shelves inside.

The funeral director, Patrick Kearns, has barely slept since the day he took charge of them. As he lies awake in the middle of the night, he knows there will be more.

... While hospitals bore the initial brunt of the crisis as sick people flooded emergency rooms, the sheer volume of human remains has pushed the system for caring for the dead to its limits, too: Hospital morgues, funeral homes, cemeteries and crematories are all overflowing and backed up.

... On a recent week, the crematory at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn handled about 130 cases — more than double its typical load. Richard Moylan, the cemetery’s president, said that two of his five ovens had broken down from overuse..."

[niyad]

6. Thank you for that needful reminder of the horrors we all faced before

the testing, the vaccines, the medicines and treatments that could help.

I do truly loathe, hate, despise, and wish to perdition, all the deniers, all those who pushed and fomented lies, all for their own evil ends.

[cliffside]

8. You're welcome ... seems his confirmation hearing is delayed...

and time moves quickly in the news to the next item of the day which they dwell upon endlessly sometimes. I'm with you about all those who try and push lies, biggest liar of all about to resume power.


Pressure builds on RFK Jr. as confirmation hearing remains unscheduled, should be a share link.
https://wapo.st/4fXVKuU

"The Office of Government Ethics as of Friday was still evaluating Kennedy’s financial disclosures, which are required for potential Cabinet officials, delaying his anticipated hearings in front of the Senate’s finance and health committees. The prominent anti-vaccine activist and former presidential candidate recently amended some of his prior disclosures, and ethics officials are looking for potential conflicts of interest, congressional aides have said.

The delay has meant that Kennedy will not face the Senate until late January at the earliest. The holdup — and the prospect that Kennedy will be the lone high-profile Trump pick facing the Senate on a given day, rather than jockeying with multiple other nominees for attention — could amplify the spotlight on his record, scrutiny that has increased in recent weeks.

... Several former Trump health officials have reiterated their concerns about Kennedy’s potential confirmation. Scott Gottlieb, who led the Food and Drug Administration under Trump, said at the J.P. Morgan health-care conference this week that he stands by comments made last year that Kennedy could undermine Americans’ vaccine confidence and help foster a resurgence in vaccine-preventable disease.

...“It takes no imagination to see how dangerous it would be to confirm RFK Jr. as Health Secretary, and it takes mountains of willful ignorance to ignore it,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-Washington) said in a statement Wednesday, after leaving her meeting with Kennedy."

[niyad]

9. I wonder what would happen if brainworm contracted covid. Or maybe

they all could.

[cliffside]

11. I would not lose any sleep, most would never receive the treatment afforded to them. nt

[niyad]

12. Oh, I would certainly not lose any sleep. . .unless one counts the time

I spend with my poppets and candles. I was just wondering if he would beg for treatment, or die insisting covid is a hoax.

[cliffside]

13. Not sure about rfk, we know trump got the best treatment then put others at risk ...

[Abolishinist]

5. Kick

[niyad]

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[niyad]

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