In the wake of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr's firing of top CDC officials and cuts in mRNA vaccine research , Dr. Timothy Johnson (longtime network TV medical editor and founding editor of the Harvard Medical School Health Letter) has a message for a fellow doctor, Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, who'd promised oversight of Kennedy when he voted to confirm him:

Senator Cassidy: I reach out to you as one physician to another, hoping that your doctor's heart can override your politics.

First, allow me to remind you of what you said to the Senate after deciding to vote in favor of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination as Secretary of Health and Human Services: "If Mr. Kennedy is confirmed, I will use my authority as chairman of the Senate committee with over

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