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(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump’s nominee to pb the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, is going successful beforehand of lawmakers for his 2nd confirmation proceeding Thursday.
He faced senators successful the Finance Committee connected Wednesday — present helium volition beryllium questioned by those connected the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.
Wednesday's hearing was contentious, with Kennedy grilled implicit his past remarks connected vaccines. Experts accidental helium has a grounds of spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories.
However, Kennedy has tried to downplay these past remarks.
"News reports person claimed that I americium anti-vaccine oregon anti-industry — I americium neither. I americium pro-safety,” Kennedy said astatine Wednesday's proceeding earlier being interrupted by a protestor, who was escorted out.
Later, Kennedy said helium supports the measles and polio vaccine.
“I volition bash thing arsenic HHS caput that makes it hard oregon discourages radical from taking immoderate of those vaccines,” Kennedy said.
Still, helium made respective mendacious claims during the hearing, including astir the COVID-19 vaccine, specified arsenic that children nether six don't request it due to the fact that they person a "zero risk" of coronavirus infection.
This isn't true: According to several studies, COVID-19 was a starring origin of decease for children 1 to 4. The University of Oxford recovered it ranked seventh arsenic a origin of decease among that property radical betwixt 2021 and 2022. In addition, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends COVID-19 vaccines for those 6 months and older and says the inoculation is harmless for children.
Kennedy besides inaccurately claimed Medicaid is afloat paid for by the national authorities erstwhile successful reality, states and national taxpayers money it. When it came to the taxable of Alzheimer's, Kennedy misstated the authorities of the subject and research, falsely claiming the National Institutes of Health ignores "any different hypothesis" for it than amyloid.
The NIH's $3.8 cardinal fund for Alzheimer’s and akin dementias includes researching a scope of different factors that may underlie however Alzheimer’s develops, the Associated Press reported.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
