In a bold push to overhaul the U.S. public health system, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has initiated sweeping reforms at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), including firing top officials, pledging the first comprehensive scientific review of the childhood vaccine schedule, and launching investigations into autism causes and chronic disease epidemics.
These moves, aimed at addressing what Kennedy describes as systemic failures in public health, have drawn sharp criticism from establishment medicine and media outlets, who accuse him of endangering children's health and undermining science.
But a closer examination reveals an irony: critics are defending a status quo riddled with missteps, while ignoring decades of escalating health crises that Kennedy seeks to confront, with crucial support from President Trump.
No other president or HHS secretary has tried what’s being attempted today: a serious overhaul of ineffective and corrupt systems impacting public health. And for it, they are making powerful enemies at high levels.
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