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Eating in palm trees in a courtyard in Mar Lago In DecemberPresident -elect Donald Trump, the chief executives of the drug giants reassured Eli Lily and Vizar This will not be the anti -vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Junior is a fundamental choice for the Presidency of the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services.

“I think it will be less extreme than you think,” Trump said later that month. press conference In Palm Beach, Florida, Resort.

Eight months have passed, and Kennedy intensified his attacks on the vaccine system.

At the top of his list of goals: a Federal vaccine compensation program That settles the allegations of injury. Some legal scholars and public health leaders say that its strategy has escaped from the fund or reduces the fund. Pharmaceutical companies that prevent the risks and costs of responsibility that will force them to stop conducting vaccines completely.

“It is a radical agenda,” he said Angela RasmussenVirus physician in the vaccine organization and infectious disease at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. “He uses a group of different mechanisms and does not actually exist any handrail. People will pick up, but that will not be enough to stop the waves of deaths and the death of children.”

Kennedy said that there is needed changes to the US vaccine system because, it is confirmed without evidence, Vaccines are linked to autismThe nervous toxicity, allergies and death. He is a leader “Make America healthy again“The movement, an unofficial campaign that avoids traditional medicine and adopts” medical freedom “. Many of the vaccine followers oppose and believe that they are unsafe, despite scientific evidence, on the contrary.

Kennedy admitted that he wanted to repair the vaccine box, known as the vaccine replacement program, and writes July 28 on the social platform X that “VICP is broken and intended to repair.” HHS works with the Ministry of Justice Program renewalWhich protects medicines from most of the responsibility for injuries.

HHS did not respond to a request to speak with Kennedy, but agency officials said he did not oppose vaccinations.

“Minister Kennedy is not an erased-erasing-supporting safety, supporter of recovery, and accountability,” Viaca Rodriguez Feliciano, a HHS spokeswoman, said in an email.

However, behind the scenes, Kennedy was laying the foundation to restrict the availability of the widely used vaccinations, according to people familiar with the internal discussions who asked not to get to know them because they were not authorized to talk about the topic.

A multi -side strategy

The strategy began to crystallize in the spring. Step 1: Asking unfounded questions about the safety of vaccines. At April Cabinet meeting, Kennedy Trump told HHS that a huge study would determine the reason for the high diagnosis of autism by September.

Kennedy cost David Al -NisourThe researcher who repeated the prosecution that was exposed that the vaccines caused autism to supervise the work, according to Media reports.

Then Kennedy doubled by questioning Use of aluminumWhich is added to many vaccines to help enhance the immune response. Linking to allergies at the Conservative meeting in July, despite a A recent study In the year of internal medicine, you did not find any connection. It is widely expected to ask the Federal Vaccine Consulting Committee Review procedure.

Autism and fears about aluminum were the early sulfos in the batch to pursue the compensation box, according to two people.

This box It provides money for people for vaccine injuries and paid more than $ 5 billion since its foundation in 1988, according to the management of resources and health services.

Before filing a court lawsuit, the injured individuals bring their claims to the non -received program vaccine court, which reviews the evidence. The fund provides compensation from a small tax tax.

Compensation is partially determined by an HRSA schedule and supervised by the HHS Secretary. It lists each vaccine and injuries linked and includes the routine vaccinations recommended by the centers of control and prevention of diseases that are subject to consumption tax. Injuries include Excessive sensitivity and encephalitis. People with such injuries can within a certain time after obtaining a specific vaccine can get money.

Kennedy wants to obtain autism or allergies to that document, according to two people familiar with internal discussions and Fears that were publicly raised By some vaccine developers and former organizers. The goal can be achieved if HHS research blames the autistic vaccines, or for example, or if a federal vaccine consulting against aluminum in vaccines recommends, according to some legal scientists.

“Given the autism rate, if many cases are brought, the program may go bankrupt,” said Dorit Reese, a professor at the University of California in San Francisco.

If this happens, pharmaceutical companies can stop producing vaccinations, which do not tend to be very profitable, instead of intertwining in costly lawsuits from demands who cannot get money because the Federal Vaccine injury box has been dry, some legal experts and vaccine developers.

David Dodd, President and CEO of Geovax LaboratorsIt is a biotechnology company that develops vaccines and immune treatments.

A federal vaccine advisory committee can also recommend an aluminum in the shots, forcing drug makers to make an expensive reformulation or exit from the market.

Kennedy put the people around him to implement the strategy. It has been paid to obtain skeptics of vaccines in decision -making positions at the Disease Control Center, which recommends vaccines, food and medicine, which agree on it.

He also took advantage of the leaders of the Anti -Qazi Movement to examine the candidates for it.

The result was organizational and political decisions that caused the vaccines to reach and develop them.

HHS said this month it was Stop 500 million dollars In grants and contracts for the development of the Mercy Rana vaccines, including improvement and more durable Covid vaccine.

Federal government Stop recommending Cofide’s clips For women and original pregnant children, the inputs exceeded a consulting committee for vaccines that could have been traditionally weighing.

and Kennedy reinforced That committee with its members who chose it carefully, including skeptical of vaccines, removing the American Medical Association, the American Nurses Association, and other industry groups that worked as a committee committee. The amended plate against influenza vaccines, which contains a portfolio by mistake Autism.

He calls the White House

Kennedy’s design on keeping skeptics in vaccines at censorship positions, played in a deal that was concluded with Trump and his employees, according to two people familiar with the situation. The arrangement met on Sunday night in July when Kennedy received a call from the White House.

The topic was in Knay Brasad, a higher vaccine regulator in the Food and Drug Administration. He had touched recently a A wave of industry criticism To play a role in the agency’s decision to ask the biotechnology company Sarepta treatments To stop genetic therapy shipments due to safety concerns.

Publications of social media and conservative commentators Anger sliding. Laura Lumer, a right -wing instigator of right, said, said. July 21 on x Brasad should be launched and described as “progressive liberal and Burnie Sanders,” referring to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Congress legislators began to overcome the White House with questions.

Anger reached Trump, who Brasad wanted outsideAccording to people. But Kennedy was concerned about the loss of Brasad. He felt that he needed a critical of vaccinations that oversee vaccines in the agency.

So Kennedy made a deal. He will be asked to Pressad To resign As head of the FDA for the evaluation and research of biology, which regulates vaccine and biology products such as genetics. The center will be divided into two operations, with Kennedy enabling to choose a person who supervises vaccines.

Some public health leaders publicly participated in the arrangement and raised concerns about their potential impact. Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb He said in an interview on August 1 on CNBC he believed it “will be very devastating to the agency.”

After leaving the agency in July, Brasad Back nowAlthough it is unclear whether its role has changed.

Recently, a lawsuit was against Kennedy by Ray Flores, Senior external lawyer To defend the health of children. The Kennedy -established Qazi Anti -Defense Group for Children is funded by the lawsuit, which Kennedy claims to launch it A work group to study the safety of the vaccine that it says is required to report the results to Congress. But Kennedy and his allies look at the lawsuit as friendly, according to one person who is aware of this issue, because he is looking for a result he wants.

HHS announced on August 14 that it will revive a federal committee, which was dissolved in 1998, to provide supervision of children’s vaccines.

Kennedy’s action against vaccines has also sparked non -friendly claims, including those he brought American Academy of Pediatrics And other public health groups. His recent decision to stop the money to develop a flexible vaccine resulted in social media criticism.

“This is reckless. This is dangerous. This will cost life. We must return again,” Senator Edward Market (D-Mass.) He said August 5 on X.

“I tried to be objective and not composed of flowers in response to the current HHS measures-but frankly, this step will cost life,” Jerome AdamsWho was the American general surgeon during the previous Trump administration, said August 5 on the same platform.

Kennedy remains unwanted. In the forces, his supporters are launching an unprecedented campaign of public relations to promote HHS, which has sparked speculation that he might study in the 2028 presidential race.

Non -profitable Maha work A call was made in July To activate Kennedy supporters and started in six numbers Advertising Kennedy and Trump’s health initiatives are glorified.

“This is not a mistake, this is a revolution that will change the face of public health policy,” Tony Leon, head of Maha Action, said in a statement. “The Americans demand radical transparency and the golden record.”

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