{"id":119556,"date":"2025-09-04T14:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/119556\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T14:55:08","slug":"watch-as-rfk-jr-pressed-on-vaccines-and-cdc-turmoil-at-senate-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/119556\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch as RFK Jr pressed on vaccines and CDC turmoil at Senate hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

RFK Jr’s HHS controversies pile uppublished at 14:24 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

14:24 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Madeline Halpert
US Reporter<\/p>\n

\"RFKImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

Since taking the helm at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in February, Kennedy has made a number of moves that have alarmed health experts and caused chaos at health agencies. <\/p>\n

A vaccine sceptic, Kennedy has attempted to remake how the federal government regulates and recommends immunisations. <\/p>\n

He fired every member of a panel of independent vaccine experts that issues recommendations for the shots, and replaced them with people who are more sceptical of vaccines. <\/p>\n

He has attempted to narrow recommendations for who should get Covid-19 vaccines, excluding healthy children and pregnant women. <\/p>\n

As an outbreak of measles became the worst in the US in decades, he continued to spread misinformation about the safety of the measles vaccine. <\/p>\n

Recently, hundreds of HHS employees wrote a letter to Kennedy, accusing him of contributing to the harassment of health workers after a gunman fired 500 rounds at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta last month. <\/p>\n

They said the misinformation he has spread has helped sow mistrust in public health officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RFK Jr’s HHS controversies pile uppublished at 14:24 British Summer Time 14:24 BST Madeline HalpertUS Reporter Image source,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-119556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}