Summary

The nomination of anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as U.S. health secretary under Donald Trump has alarmed global health experts, who fear it could undermine vaccination efforts and public health globally.

Kennedy has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation, which critics warn could reduce immunization rates, risking outbreaks of preventable diseases like measles.

His plans to reform U.S. health agencies and tackle “corruption” could disrupt institutions like the FDA, while Trump’s broader policies may include withdrawing from the WHO and reinstating abortion funding bans.

Concerns also extend to potential trade wars affecting medicine supplies.

  • Adderbox76@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    1 day ago

    It’s pretty simple really. How about foreign countries don’t let unvaxxed people in. Not for vacations, not for business, not for anything. U.S. wants to be morons, let them be morons inside their own borders.

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    13 minutes ago

    The Biden admin withheld dairy contamination data to protect dairy farmers, and let the CEO of Delta set Covid isolation guidelines to meet his workforce needs.

    The health institutions are already fucked.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      26
      ·
      2 days ago

      of course.

      Russia can’t take over unless they infect us from the inside.

      this is exactly the same thing that happened to them in the 1980s. Corrupt oligarchs selling national interests one slice at a time.

  • btaf45@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    73
    ·
    3 days ago

    Dear Trump voters:

    Congratulations. You just destroyed our Department of Health. You realize this is just as likely to kill you as us right? Probably even more so because we will be on our guard.

    • FatCrab@lemmy.one
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      18
      ·
      2 days ago

      They’re basically the stupidest part of our population. I don’t think they’ll ever understand the connection between their idiotic voting behavior and the consequences of those choices. Remember–they’re fucking morons.

    • pyre@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      17
      ·
      2 days ago

      did you ask if Republican voters realize something? realization requires using your brain, something that would’ve prevented them from voting Republican in the first place

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    94
    ·
    edit-2
    3 days ago

    the guy endorses raw milk on a time when non infectious avian flu viral particles are found in pasteurised supermarket milk. he is the walking embodiment of disaster.

  • steel_nomad@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    2 days ago

    I HAVE to lol at this. Hopefully the idiots standing in the road won’t get in the way of progress. Improving Americas food and health is yuge. Fuck pharma.

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    2 days ago

    He will get forced out before anything gets too bad. There’s way too much money involved in many of the things he wants to change for corporations to just take it.

  • Cargon@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    3 days ago

    I’d like to fit in with this new America I’ve found myself in. What’s the best way to spread polio to these people who so desperately desire it?

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    2 days ago

    Only if the rest of the world lets them be influenced by the US. If major powers like the EU do, then it’s their own fault.

        • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          1 day ago

          COVID showed us that when we close the borders it’s already too late.

          American avian flu will be global long before enough other governments take it seriously enough to react, because the people who should have raised the alarm (in the USA) will be too busy looking for a job, in jail, dead, or ignoring it and drinking raw milk.