My reading of Health and Human Services Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership is a lot different than that espoused by his former state campaign director, Josh Mazer (“Kennedy off to strong start at HHS,” July 10).
What I see is Kennedy’s appointment of a group of partisan ideologues with impressive credentials whose only actions have been to dismantle all senior leadership at the Food and Drug Administration, slash research funding at the National Institutes of Health, dismiss all previous members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and significantly undermine public trust in health care institutions. It is hard to even imagine the destruction this will cause to health care and medical research in America.
Mr. Mazer also seems to conveniently overlook the reality that, as America is in the midst of its worst measles outbreak in three decades with several deaths and hundreds of hospitalizations, Kennedy continues to spew his anti-vaccination rhetoric and promote unproven therapies.
Shame on Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, a physician, and the other Republicans who voted to confirm Kennedy. America will pay a high price.
— Beryl Rosenstein, Pikesville
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