RFK Jr., a vaccine skeptic, could be set to lead a Trump administration’s efforts to battle ‘childhood chronic disease’
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may be poised to play a key health role in the next administration should Donald Trump get re-elected, according to two people close to the campaign and familiar with the plans.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may be poised to play a key health role in the next administration should Donald Trump get re-elected, according to two people close to the campaign and familiar with the plans.
The current thinking is that the role for the former independent candidate would be spearheading what one of the people described as the “Operation Warp Speed for childhood chronic disease,” referring to the title of the Covid vaccine development project during Trump’s first term.
Kennedy is well-known for his criticism and skepticism of the Covid vaccine and other immunizations.
Kennedy, for example, has repeatedly claimed that vaccines are linked to autism, even though for decades numerous studies across several countries have debunked the association. Concerns about a potential link between autism and the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine have persisted for years after a now-retracted 1998 paper claimed a connection.
There is significant common ground between the Trump campaign and Kennedy, on preventing conditions such as obesity and diabetes in children, a person familiar with the plans said, stressing that plans are still fluid and nothing has been decided.
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