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A vaccine skeptic is leading public health in the US. Today, RFK Jr. faced questions

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced a scathing line of questioning from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the Senate on Thursday.
Kennedy is a vaccine skeptic and is using his position as Secretary of Health and Human Services to radically change vaccine policy.

In recent weeks, there have been a number of public health officials who have resigned or been fired, creating chaos at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other health agencies.

Federal employees are also speaking out, including more than 1,000 former and current HHS employees who penned a letter urging Kennedy to resign.

Now, some states are taking vaccine policy into their own hands

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