The assault on medical science, and a few other sciences as well, has hit a fever pitch in Donald Trump’s America.
And good luck finding a vaccine for that.
Anyone who was paying the least bit of attention — unlike, apparently, Sen. Bill Cassidy or Gov. Jared Polis — had to know that Health Secretary and Anti-Vaxxer-in-Chief RFK Jr. was coming after our vaccines. And coming hard.
The Kennedy scion — who, as one pundit put it, hails from the crazy side of Camelot — has been a leading anti-vax advocate for much of his adult life, at least in between bouts with dead bear cubs, whale carcasses and brain worms.
And now the FDA under Kennedy — who had called for COVID vaccines, which have saved millions of lives, to be recalled during the height of the pandemic — has limited the latest version of the COVID vaccine to old people (like me) and young people with an underlying condition, plus anyone who can manage to get a doctor’s prescription.
For everyone else, it isn’t clear what’s going to happen, because we have to hear first from the Kennedy-trashed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whose director was fired by Trump.
Even Cassidy, a doctor whose vote to confirm Kennedy put him over the top, now says the CDC, whose leadership on vaccines has been decimated, can’t be trusted.
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And who doesn’t think that Kennedy, who has linked vaccines to autism, isn’t coming after childhood vaccines next? Dr. Leana S. Wen, who writes a health column for the Washington Post, thinks so. As she points out, Kennedy is hinting at a major announcement, saying, “We’re finding interventions, certain interventions, that are clearly, almost certainly causing autism.”
Just ask Susan Monarez, the recent CDC director, whose time on the job lasted less than a month before Trump fired her. Kennedy had tried to force her out for refusing to adhere to Kennedy’s anti-science takes on vaccine policy and refusing to fire her top vaccine advisers, who had served in a series of administrations, both Democratic and Republican.
Monarez said she wouldn’t “rubber stamp” Kennedy’s decisions on America’s health. And you can see why.
But Kennedy, who has suggested that the measles outbreak could be stopped by taking cod liver oil, already has his rubber stamp. The person running the study of childhood vaccines and their long-debunked link to autism is the discredited vaccine skeptic David Geier. So we know the fix is in.
And four top CDC experts have now quit. Because Monarez was fired. Because the CDC’s entire 17-person advisory committee had been fired and replaced largely by prominent anti-vaxxers, including one who even said the COVID shots could be linked to a form of AIDS. Because the gunman’s attack on CDC headquarters has gone without mention — at least that I could find — by Trump.
Because HHS is being run by someone who, without evidence, linked the horrific Minnesota school/church shooting to antidepressants.
In a rocket blast of a resignation letter, Demetre Daskalakis, who directed the center overseeing immunization and respiratory diseases at the CDC, said Kennedy has never asked anyone in his department for a briefing on vaccines. And that he learned of most decisions from reading about them in the newspapers or in social media.
“I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.”
He added: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people.”
It would be one thing if the decision on the COVID vaccines had been based on medical science, and not, say, a report generated by the hallucinatory side of AI. But medical science, as we know, is out of favor and may someday soon be out of funding. (See: cuts at National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, various leading research universities, on and on.)
But this is what we know about Kennedy and vaccines.
He once called the pandemic a “plandemic,” and that the vaccine was being promoted by “a pharmaceutical-driven, biosecurity agenda that will enslave the entire human race and plunge us into a dystopian nightmare.”
He once speculated that COVID might have been ethnically targeted so as to “attack Caucasians and Black people” and not so much Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”
It’s all looney toons and discounted conspiracy theories and, yes, a refutation of vaccines that have changed, so much for the better, the course of history.
And now Trump, whose greatest presidential achievement was the warp-speed development of the COVID vaccine, now says he is eager to hear what Kennedy has learned about autism and vaccines.
How have we gotten to this point?
Let’s hear again from Dr. Daskalakis and what he wrote in his resignation letter:
“The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud. I am resigning because of the cowardice of a leader that cannot admit that HIS and his minions’ words over decades created an environment where violence like this can occur. I reject his and his colleagues’ thoughts and prayers, and advise they direct those to people that they have not actively harmed.”
Harsh words. For harsh times. For worse times yet to come.
Mike Littwin has been a columnist for too many years to count. He has covered Dr. J, four presidential inaugurations, six national conventions and countless brain-numbing speeches in the New Hampshire and Iowa snow. Sign up for Mike’s newsletter.
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