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(NewsNation) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is acceptable to look questions Thursday earlier the Senate Finance Committee regarding caller changes wrong the nation’s starring nationalist wellness agency.
His quality comes conscionable a week aft the Food and Drug Administration restricted entree to the COVID-19 vaccine — a determination that sparked the removal of recently appointed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez, the resignations of 4 elder officials and nationalist backlash.
Kennedy is expected to support reforms for the Department of Health and Human Services, which helium precocious wrote successful a Wall Street Journal op-ed are designed to chopped bureaucracy and trim conflicts of involvement that undermine “gold-standard science.”
Kennedy has faced mounting scrutiny arsenic aggregate firings and resignations heighten alarm implicit a imaginable enactment situation astatine the CDC.
More than 1,000 existent and erstwhile HHS employees signed a letter this week demanding his resignation, accusing Kennedy of “compromising the wellness of the nation.”
The missive follows a erstwhile telephone from HHS unit urging Kennedy to bash much to support nationalist wellness workers aft the Aug. 8 shooting astatine CDC office successful Atlanta.
