A rare display of bipartisan consensus was seen Thursday at a remarkably contentious Senate hearing with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy appeared before the Senate Finance Committee after an extraordinarily tumultuous week and a half in which he announced limited access to Covid vaccines and fired the newly confirmed director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Susan Monarez, leading to an exodus of senior officials at the agency.

Over roughly three hours of questioning, Kennedy was more vocal in his anti-vaccine views than at previous Senate hearings and seemed to return to embracing fringe positions that experts have warned could seriously damage public health.

He told Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., that he believes vaccines developed with mRNA — th

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