What happened
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced mounting resistance to his anti-vaccine campaign this month, after a contentious congressional hearing in which he faced sharp bipartisan questioning about the chaos he has created in the nation’s public health agencies. Kennedy was combative during the three-hour hearing, as he was grilled about his contradictory statements on vaccines and accused of lying in his confirmation hearings when he vowed not to restrict vaccine access. “You promised to uphold the highest standards for vaccines,” said Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.). “Since then, I’ve grown deeply concerned.” Kennedy doubled down on false claims that mRNA vaccines are “deadly” and dismissed concerns about people being unable to get Covid vaccines as “crazy talk.” Sen. Ron W