… Acting CDC Director Jay Bhattacharya said something that no other prominent health leader in the Trump administration has. “I think it is vital that every kid in this country get the measles vaccine. Absolutely vital,” he told CDC staff at a meeting ….
… In fact, the whole point of the meeting seemed to be to signal a turn toward normalcy, away from the more extreme elements of Kennedy’s agenda. Bhattacharya told the CDC’s beleaguered employees that the agency needed to “move on” from the chaos of the past year.
…[T]he Make America Healthy Again movement and, by extension, Kennedy appear to be on the ropes. MAHA supporters are angry that Trump recently signed an executive order shielding the makers of the weed killer glyphosate from legal liability. The confirmation of Casey Means, the wellness influencer whom Trump nominated to become surgeon general, appears to be stalled in the Senate. … Last week, a federal judge ruled that the CDC’s January shrinking of the childhood-vaccine schedule was probably illegal ….
Each of these events individually is bad news for Kennedy’s agenda; together, they suggest that his grip on power is waning.
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