In June 2019, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. traveled to the small Pacific island nation of Samoa, where he met with activists calling for Samoans to skip measles vaccines and opt for alternatives instead. Now that visit — and the country’s subsequent measles ...
The Senate is poised to make “an absolute life-or-death decision” in confirming Kennedy as HHS secretary, warned Gov. Josh Green, who is also a physician.
Dr. Green is the governor of Hawaii. In early December 2019, I called Faimalotoa Kika Stowers, the health minister of Samoa. The measles outbreak that began earlier that fall on her small Pacific island nation had spread out of control and become an epidemic that threatened to overwhelm the country.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s views on vaccines and abortion rights are raising alarms across the political spectrum, as he's one of the more controversial picks for the president-elect's Cabinet.
Bipartisan critics of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are sharpening their arguments that he is unfit to serve as the nation’s top health official, embracing the extra time they have been given while Kennedy waits for his confirmation hearings to be scheduled.
Questions over the likelihood of Kennedy's confirmation took a turn this week after GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, the incoming chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, called out the potential future HHS Secretary for being "wrong" on the issue of vaccines.
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green, an emergency room physician, visited Samoa in 2019 to care for those sick with measles and to vaccinate people.
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Josh Green (D) warned that President-elect Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve ... but personal experiences with Kennedy in Samoa. “RFK Jr. has really given me pause about ...