President-elect Donald Trump dismissed issues about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine skepticism endangering youngsters, saying Monday that his choose to steer the Division of Well being and Human Providers will probably be much less excessive than critics have warned.
“I feel he’s going to be a lot much less radical than you’ll suppose. I feel he’s obtained a really open thoughts, or I wouldn’t have put him there,” Trump stated of Kennedy when talking to reporters.
As just lately as final yr, Kennedy repeated the debunked claim that vaccines trigger autism.
Trump then appeared to recommend that nations with fewer vaccine necessities are higher off.
“However there are issues,” he stated.” We don’t do in addition to lots of different nations, and people nations use nothing.”
Spokespeople for Trump and his presidential transition crew didn’t instantly reply when requested to make clear what Trump meant and to which nations he was referring.
He additionally stated he’s a “believer” within the polio vaccine ― regardless of the latest media discovering Kennedy has been working with a lawyer who’s attempting to get the Meals and Drug Administration to droop its use for kids.
“Nicely, I’m a giant believer in it. And I feel the whole lot ought to be checked out, however I’m a giant believer within the polio vaccine,” Trump stated of practically 70-year-old polio preventative, which has practically eradicated a lethal, paralyzing illness within the U.S. that when contaminated some 16,000 People a yr.
His feedback Monday recommend extra willingness to place the polio vaccine underneath some kind of evaluate. Earlier this month, when requested about vaccines throughout an look on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Trump described the polio vaccine as “the best factor,” saying: “If anyone instructed me to eliminate the polio vaccine, they’re going to should work actual exhausting to persuade me.”
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As for faculties mandating vaccines, Trump stated Monday: “I don’t like mandates. I’m not a giant mandate particular person. So , I used to be towards mandates, largely Democrat governors did the mandates, they usually did a really poor factor. You understand looking back they made a giant mistake, having to do with the schooling of kids.”
