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Perhaps no vote was as scary for Senator Bill Cassidy, the Republican and doctor of Louisiana, as his vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Trump’s health secretary. Mr. Cassidy wondered aloud for days how Mr. Kennedy, the most vocal and powerful critic in the country of vaccinations, could manage an infectious crisis in diseases.

Now, while an epidemic of measles rage in western Texas, Mr. Cassidy has discovered. Everything is at the bottom, he said, to “the gestalt”.

On Monday, a few days after the Texas epidemic killed an unaccompanied child, Mr. Cassidy, president of the Senate health committee, cut a Capitol corridor when he was questioned about Mr. Kennedy. He pointed out to a Fox News Digital Opinion Piece In which Mr. Kennedy advised parents to consult their doctors about vaccination, while calling this a “personal” decision.

“This Fox editorial encouraged people to be vaccinated,” he said.

Recalled that Mr. Kennedy had described him as a personal choice, Mr. Cassidy thought for a moment. “If you want to like, analyze it to the line, you can say,” Chat with your doctor “,” said Cassidy. “He also said:” We put available vaccinations. We do this for vaccination. We do this for vaccination. So, if you take the gestalt, the Gestalt was: “Settons vaccinated!” “”

The assessment of Mr. Cassidy – that the entire message of Mr. Kennedy was more than the sum of his parts – reflects the way in which the epidemic of measles highlighted the way in which the unorthodox choice of Trump to manage the main health agency of the country brought a perspective formerly curted in the political political current, creating discomfort for certain republicans.

As a founder and president of his non -profit organization, Children’s Health Defense, and later as a presidential candidate, Mr. Kennedy minimized the advantages of vaccination. He has also repeatedly suggested that measles, mumps and rubbing vaccine cause autism, despite in -depth research that has found no link.

Since he won Trump’s wink to lead the vast Ministry of Health and Social Services, Kennedy has traveled a prudent line on the issue. Some of his recent statements, in which he does not stop denouncing vaccines, have angry some of his supporters. But its approval less than full of throat of vaccination, and its promotion of alternative remedies to treat measles, have angry traditional scientists who say that the proven way of preventing measles is the vaccine.

“It is, I would say, the most bare the strict that can be made in the midst of an epidemic of measles,” said Dr. Adam Ratner, a pediatrician from New York who has just published a book, “Booster Shots”, which warns a resurgence of measles.

But Del Bigtree, the former director of communications of Mr. Kennedy and one of his closest allies, said that Mr. Kennedy did exactly what he said that he would do: put all the options on the table and let the parents decide for themselves.

He used the word “balance” to describe Mr. Kennedy’s approach and said that the media were “incredibly crazy and in some respects alarmist and dangerous by creating panic on a death of measles”.

Asked about the “Gestalt” remark of Mr. Cassidy, Andrew Nixon, spokesperson for the department, returned the Fox opinion piece. He said that the commentary by the Secretary of Health could speak of himself: “Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons.”

Mr. Cassidy, a liver specialist, has made his career in medicine by treating unhealthy patients as a doctor of the Louisiana’s charitable hospital system. He is a fierce supporter of vaccines.

But he is also faced with a republican primary challenger in 2026, and voting against Mr. Kennedy risked making his opponent approve – and to trigger a potential reaction from an increasingly vaccine GOP electorate.

Mr. Kennedy’s “Medical Freedom” movement, which he calls “Make America Healthy Again”, is now deeply anchored in the Republican Party. The coronavirus pandemic has transformed numerous preservatives against vaccination mandates, even for children who frequent school. Throughout the country, nearly 1,000 candidates, almost all Republicans, presented themselves at a voter office in November with the support of Ask for freedom of healthA non -profit organization in Florida which has prompted retirement of vaccine requirements.

For Mr. Cassidy and other Republicans who were uncomfortable about Mr. Kennedy, the situation in western Texas requires a calculation, said Whit Ayres, a republican strategist who is also a member of Rotary International, An organization that has set the objective of putting an end to polio by promoting vaccination worldwide.

“His position on vaccines was extremely well known when he was appointed and when he was confirmed by the US Senate,” said Ayers. “Everyone, open eyes, knew that their positions could lead to a resurgence of measles.”

As vaccination rates have dropped across the country, public health experts have warned that measles would be the first infectious disease to return. But the epidemic of Texas measles cannot be attributed to Mr. Kennedy. THE The disease began to spread Within the Mennonite community, an island Christian group that settled in western Texas in the 1970s; Many mennonites are not vaccinated and vulnerable to the virus.

Mr. Kennedy minimized the situation in Texas at a cabinet meeting with Mr. Trump last week, saying that measles epidemics in the United States are “not unusual”. Its Fox opinion has favored the use of vitamin A, which has shown studies is useful in the treatment of measles in unhappy children.

He followed with a Pre -recorded interview on Fox news This was released on Tuesday, in which he said that parents and doctors should consider other approaches, including cod liver oil, for measles. He too recognized that vaccines “prevent infection”. But again, Mr. Kennedy did not urged Americans to be vaccinated.

Texas Department of Health has issued a health alert On January 23, report two cases of measles. Since then, nearly 160 people have contracted the disease and 22 have been hospitalized. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that he had sent some of his “disease detectives” to Texas to support local officials in the answer.

On Wednesday, while Mr. Cassidy seemed satisfied with the treatment by Mr. Kennedy of the case, the senator pushed another key candidate in terms of health on the issues of measles, vaccines and autism.

He wanted to know if Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, appearing before the Senate Health Committee for Its confirmation audience As Trump’s choice to direct the National Institutes of Health, intended to spend taxes for discredited theory that vaccines cause autism. Mr. Cassidy had repeatedly and without success, who had attempted to have Mr. Kennedy rejected to reject this theory during his own confirmation audience.

Dr. Bhattacharya told the senator that he was “convinced” that there was no link between the measles and autism vaccine. But as Mr. Kennedy, he said that he supported additional research, if only to appease the fears of nervous parents.

Mr. Cassidy was exasperated, saying that the question had already been settled by years of in -depth research. New studies, he said, would waste taxpayers’ dollars and take money from studies that could discover the real causes of autism. He beat his fist on the table.

“If we give up money here,” he said with a wave of his hand, “it’s less money that we really have to go after the real reason.”

And in any event, Mr. Cassidy said new research would not change minds. “There are people who do not agree that the world is round,” he said, adding: “People still think that Elvis is alive.”

HAS secure Mr. Cassidy’s vote last month, Mr. Kennedy made a series of concessions that Mr. Cassidy described A Senate speech. They included a commitment not to dissolve the Committee of Experts which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines and to leave intact declarations on the CDC website saying that vaccines do not cause autism.

Mr. Kennedy also promised to have an “unprecedented collaborative working relationship” with Mr. Cassidy, and to meet him or speak with him “several times a month” and to give an opinion in advance to the congress of any change in vaccine policy.

“I will carefully take care of any effort to unfairly sow the fear of the public of vaccines between confusion of the references of coincidence and anecdote,” Cassidy said.

On his way in the Senate’s room on Monday, he said that he thought Mr. Kennedy was doing a good job with Texas’ response. “He manages it well,” said the senator. He was asked if he had spoken to Mr. Kennedy about the epidemic of measles.

“We are talking about it regularly,” said Cassidy, adding: “Let’s let it go.”

Perhaps no vote was as scary for Senator Bill Cassidy, the Republican and doctor of Louisiana, as his vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Trump’s health secretary. Mr. Cassidy wondered aloud for days how Mr. Kennedy, the most vocal and powerful critic in the country of vaccinations, could manage an infectious crisis in diseases.

Now, while an epidemic of measles rage in western Texas, Mr. Cassidy has discovered. Everything is at the bottom, he said, to “the gestalt”.

On Monday, a few days after the Texas epidemic killed an unaccompanied child, Mr. Cassidy, president of the Senate health committee, cut a Capitol corridor when he was questioned about Mr. Kennedy. He pointed out to a Fox News Digital Opinion Piece In which Mr. Kennedy advised parents to consult their doctors about vaccination, while calling this a “personal” decision.

“This Fox editorial encouraged people to be vaccinated,” he said.

Recalled that Mr. Kennedy had described him as a personal choice, Mr. Cassidy thought for a moment. “If you want to like, analyze it to the line, you can say,” Chat with your doctor “,” said Cassidy. “He also said:” We put available vaccinations. We do this for vaccination. We do this for vaccination. So, if you take the gestalt, the Gestalt was: “Settons vaccinated!” “”

The assessment of Mr. Cassidy – that the entire message of Mr. Kennedy was more than the sum of his parts – reflects the way in which the epidemic of measles highlighted the way in which the unorthodox choice of Trump to manage the main health agency of the country brought a perspective formerly curted in the political political current, creating discomfort for certain republicans.

As a founder and president of his non -profit organization, Children’s Health Defense, and later as a presidential candidate, Mr. Kennedy minimized the advantages of vaccination. He has also repeatedly suggested that measles, mumps and rubbing vaccine cause autism, despite in -depth research that has found no link.

Since he won Trump’s wink to lead the vast Ministry of Health and Social Services, Kennedy has traveled a prudent line on the issue. Some of his recent statements, in which he does not stop denouncing vaccines, have angry some of his supporters. But its approval less than full of throat of vaccination, and its promotion of alternative remedies to treat measles, have angry traditional scientists who say that the proven way of preventing measles is the vaccine.

“It is, I would say, the most bare the strict that can be made in the midst of an epidemic of measles,” said Dr. Adam Ratner, a pediatrician from New York who has just published a book, “Booster Shots”, which warns a resurgence of measles.

But Del Bigtree, the former director of communications of Mr. Kennedy and one of his closest allies, said that Mr. Kennedy did exactly what he said that he would do: put all the options on the table and let the parents decide for themselves.

He used the word “balance” to describe Mr. Kennedy’s approach and said that the media were “incredibly crazy and in some respects alarmist and dangerous by creating panic on a death of measles”.

Asked about the “Gestalt” remark of Mr. Cassidy, Andrew Nixon, spokesperson for the department, returned the Fox opinion piece. He said that the commentary by the Secretary of Health could speak of himself: “Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons.”

Mr. Cassidy, a liver specialist, has made his career in medicine by treating unhealthy patients as a doctor of the Louisiana’s charitable hospital system. He is a fierce supporter of vaccines.

But he is also faced with a republican primary challenger in 2026, and voting against Mr. Kennedy risked making his opponent approve – and to trigger a potential reaction from an increasingly vaccine GOP electorate.

Mr. Kennedy’s “Medical Freedom” movement, which he calls “Make America Healthy Again”, is now deeply anchored in the Republican Party. The coronavirus pandemic has transformed numerous preservatives against vaccination mandates, even for children who frequent school. Throughout the country, nearly 1,000 candidates, almost all Republicans, presented themselves at a voter office in November with the support of Ask for freedom of healthA non -profit organization in Florida which has prompted retirement of vaccine requirements.

For Mr. Cassidy and other Republicans who were uncomfortable about Mr. Kennedy, the situation in western Texas requires a calculation, said Whit Ayres, a republican strategist who is also a member of Rotary International, An organization that has set the objective of putting an end to polio by promoting vaccination worldwide.

“His position on vaccines was extremely well known when he was appointed and when he was confirmed by the US Senate,” said Ayers. “Everyone, open eyes, knew that their positions could lead to a resurgence of measles.”

As vaccination rates have dropped across the country, public health experts have warned that measles would be the first infectious disease to return. But the epidemic of Texas measles cannot be attributed to Mr. Kennedy. THE The disease began to spread Within the Mennonite community, an island Christian group that settled in western Texas in the 1970s; Many mennonites are not vaccinated and vulnerable to the virus.

Mr. Kennedy minimized the situation in Texas at a cabinet meeting with Mr. Trump last week, saying that measles epidemics in the United States are “not unusual”. Its Fox opinion has favored the use of vitamin A, which has shown studies is useful in the treatment of measles in unhappy children.

He followed with a Pre -recorded interview on Fox news This was released on Tuesday, in which he said that parents and doctors should consider other approaches, including cod liver oil, for measles. He too recognized that vaccines “prevent infection”. But again, Mr. Kennedy did not urged Americans to be vaccinated.

Texas Department of Health has issued a health alert On January 23, report two cases of measles. Since then, nearly 160 people have contracted the disease and 22 have been hospitalized. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that he had sent some of his “disease detectives” to Texas to support local officials in the answer.

On Wednesday, while Mr. Cassidy seemed satisfied with the treatment by Mr. Kennedy of the case, the senator pushed another key candidate in terms of health on the issues of measles, vaccines and autism.

He wanted to know if Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, appearing before the Senate Health Committee for Its confirmation audience As Trump’s choice to direct the National Institutes of Health, intended to spend taxes for discredited theory that vaccines cause autism. Mr. Cassidy had repeatedly and without success, who had attempted to have Mr. Kennedy rejected to reject this theory during his own confirmation audience.

Dr. Bhattacharya told the senator that he was “convinced” that there was no link between the measles and autism vaccine. But as Mr. Kennedy, he said that he supported additional research, if only to appease the fears of nervous parents.

Mr. Cassidy was exasperated, saying that the question had already been settled by years of in -depth research. New studies, he said, would waste taxpayers’ dollars and take money from studies that could discover the real causes of autism. He beat his fist on the table.

“If we give up money here,” he said with a wave of his hand, “it’s less money that we really have to go after the real reason.”

And in any event, Mr. Cassidy said new research would not change minds. “There are people who do not agree that the world is round,” he said, adding: “People still think that Elvis is alive.”

HAS secure Mr. Cassidy’s vote last month, Mr. Kennedy made a series of concessions that Mr. Cassidy described A Senate speech. They included a commitment not to dissolve the Committee of Experts which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines and to leave intact declarations on the CDC website saying that vaccines do not cause autism.

Mr. Kennedy also promised to have an “unprecedented collaborative working relationship” with Mr. Cassidy, and to meet him or speak with him “several times a month” and to give an opinion in advance to the congress of any change in vaccine policy.

“I will carefully take care of any effort to unfairly sow the fear of the public of vaccines between confusion of the references of coincidence and anecdote,” Cassidy said.

On his way in the Senate’s room on Monday, he said that he thought Mr. Kennedy was doing a good job with Texas’ response. “He manages it well,” said the senator. He was asked if he had spoken to Mr. Kennedy about the epidemic of measles.

“We are talking about it regularly,” said Cassidy, adding: “Let’s let it go.”

Perhaps no vote was as scary for Senator Bill Cassidy, the Republican and doctor of Louisiana, as his vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Trump’s health secretary. Mr. Cassidy wondered aloud for days how Mr. Kennedy, the most vocal and powerful critic in the country of vaccinations, could manage an infectious crisis in diseases.

Now, while an epidemic of measles rage in western Texas, Mr. Cassidy has discovered. Everything is at the bottom, he said, to “the gestalt”.

On Monday, a few days after the Texas epidemic killed an unaccompanied child, Mr. Cassidy, president of the Senate health committee, cut a Capitol corridor when he was questioned about Mr. Kennedy. He pointed out to a Fox News Digital Opinion Piece In which Mr. Kennedy advised parents to consult their doctors about vaccination, while calling this a “personal” decision.

“This Fox editorial encouraged people to be vaccinated,” he said.

Recalled that Mr. Kennedy had described him as a personal choice, Mr. Cassidy thought for a moment. “If you want to like, analyze it to the line, you can say,” Chat with your doctor “,” said Cassidy. “He also said:” We put available vaccinations. We do this for vaccination. We do this for vaccination. So, if you take the gestalt, the Gestalt was: “Settons vaccinated!” “”

The assessment of Mr. Cassidy – that the entire message of Mr. Kennedy was more than the sum of his parts – reflects the way in which the epidemic of measles highlighted the way in which the unorthodox choice of Trump to manage the main health agency of the country brought a perspective formerly curted in the political political current, creating discomfort for certain republicans.

As a founder and president of his non -profit organization, Children’s Health Defense, and later as a presidential candidate, Mr. Kennedy minimized the advantages of vaccination. He has also repeatedly suggested that measles, mumps and rubbing vaccine cause autism, despite in -depth research that has found no link.

Since he won Trump’s wink to lead the vast Ministry of Health and Social Services, Kennedy has traveled a prudent line on the issue. Some of his recent statements, in which he does not stop denouncing vaccines, have angry some of his supporters. But its approval less than full of throat of vaccination, and its promotion of alternative remedies to treat measles, have angry traditional scientists who say that the proven way of preventing measles is the vaccine.

“It is, I would say, the most bare the strict that can be made in the midst of an epidemic of measles,” said Dr. Adam Ratner, a pediatrician from New York who has just published a book, “Booster Shots”, which warns a resurgence of measles.

But Del Bigtree, the former director of communications of Mr. Kennedy and one of his closest allies, said that Mr. Kennedy did exactly what he said that he would do: put all the options on the table and let the parents decide for themselves.

He used the word “balance” to describe Mr. Kennedy’s approach and said that the media were “incredibly crazy and in some respects alarmist and dangerous by creating panic on a death of measles”.

Asked about the “Gestalt” remark of Mr. Cassidy, Andrew Nixon, spokesperson for the department, returned the Fox opinion piece. He said that the commentary by the Secretary of Health could speak of himself: “Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons.”

Mr. Cassidy, a liver specialist, has made his career in medicine by treating unhealthy patients as a doctor of the Louisiana’s charitable hospital system. He is a fierce supporter of vaccines.

But he is also faced with a republican primary challenger in 2026, and voting against Mr. Kennedy risked making his opponent approve – and to trigger a potential reaction from an increasingly vaccine GOP electorate.

Mr. Kennedy’s “Medical Freedom” movement, which he calls “Make America Healthy Again”, is now deeply anchored in the Republican Party. The coronavirus pandemic has transformed numerous preservatives against vaccination mandates, even for children who frequent school. Throughout the country, nearly 1,000 candidates, almost all Republicans, presented themselves at a voter office in November with the support of Ask for freedom of healthA non -profit organization in Florida which has prompted retirement of vaccine requirements.

For Mr. Cassidy and other Republicans who were uncomfortable about Mr. Kennedy, the situation in western Texas requires a calculation, said Whit Ayres, a republican strategist who is also a member of Rotary International, An organization that has set the objective of putting an end to polio by promoting vaccination worldwide.

“His position on vaccines was extremely well known when he was appointed and when he was confirmed by the US Senate,” said Ayers. “Everyone, open eyes, knew that their positions could lead to a resurgence of measles.”

As vaccination rates have dropped across the country, public health experts have warned that measles would be the first infectious disease to return. But the epidemic of Texas measles cannot be attributed to Mr. Kennedy. THE The disease began to spread Within the Mennonite community, an island Christian group that settled in western Texas in the 1970s; Many mennonites are not vaccinated and vulnerable to the virus.

Mr. Kennedy minimized the situation in Texas at a cabinet meeting with Mr. Trump last week, saying that measles epidemics in the United States are “not unusual”. Its Fox opinion has favored the use of vitamin A, which has shown studies is useful in the treatment of measles in unhappy children.

He followed with a Pre -recorded interview on Fox news This was released on Tuesday, in which he said that parents and doctors should consider other approaches, including cod liver oil, for measles. He too recognized that vaccines “prevent infection”. But again, Mr. Kennedy did not urged Americans to be vaccinated.

Texas Department of Health has issued a health alert On January 23, report two cases of measles. Since then, nearly 160 people have contracted the disease and 22 have been hospitalized. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that he had sent some of his “disease detectives” to Texas to support local officials in the answer.

On Wednesday, while Mr. Cassidy seemed satisfied with the treatment by Mr. Kennedy of the case, the senator pushed another key candidate in terms of health on the issues of measles, vaccines and autism.

He wanted to know if Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, appearing before the Senate Health Committee for Its confirmation audience As Trump’s choice to direct the National Institutes of Health, intended to spend taxes for discredited theory that vaccines cause autism. Mr. Cassidy had repeatedly and without success, who had attempted to have Mr. Kennedy rejected to reject this theory during his own confirmation audience.

Dr. Bhattacharya told the senator that he was “convinced” that there was no link between the measles and autism vaccine. But as Mr. Kennedy, he said that he supported additional research, if only to appease the fears of nervous parents.

Mr. Cassidy was exasperated, saying that the question had already been settled by years of in -depth research. New studies, he said, would waste taxpayers’ dollars and take money from studies that could discover the real causes of autism. He beat his fist on the table.

“If we give up money here,” he said with a wave of his hand, “it’s less money that we really have to go after the real reason.”

And in any event, Mr. Cassidy said new research would not change minds. “There are people who do not agree that the world is round,” he said, adding: “People still think that Elvis is alive.”

HAS secure Mr. Cassidy’s vote last month, Mr. Kennedy made a series of concessions that Mr. Cassidy described A Senate speech. They included a commitment not to dissolve the Committee of Experts which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines and to leave intact declarations on the CDC website saying that vaccines do not cause autism.

Mr. Kennedy also promised to have an “unprecedented collaborative working relationship” with Mr. Cassidy, and to meet him or speak with him “several times a month” and to give an opinion in advance to the congress of any change in vaccine policy.

“I will carefully take care of any effort to unfairly sow the fear of the public of vaccines between confusion of the references of coincidence and anecdote,” Cassidy said.

On his way in the Senate’s room on Monday, he said that he thought Mr. Kennedy was doing a good job with Texas’ response. “He manages it well,” said the senator. He was asked if he had spoken to Mr. Kennedy about the epidemic of measles.

“We are talking about it regularly,” said Cassidy, adding: “Let’s let it go.”