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"Trump’s CDC Pick Wouldn’t Let Go Of False Theory Vaccines Cause Autism"

"Dave Weldon’s long record of promoting the disproven link between vaccines and autism raises concerns among some public health experts about his ability to run the CDC."

"The world’s most respected infectious-disease agency needed a new leader. Anti-vaccine activists knew just the man: Dave Weldon, a Florida physician and former seven-term Republican congressman who had for years expressed concerns about the safety of vaccines.

The year was 2017.

Weldon didn’t get the job then, but, seven years later, President-elect Donald Trump has tapped the 71-year-old former Army doctor to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC is charged with protecting the United States from health threats at home and abroad. That includes making vaccine recommendations — work that has come under fire from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the longtime vaccine skeptic whom Trump has picked to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, which has oversight over the CDC.

Kennedy proposed Weldon for the job, according to a person involved in the process who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share a private conversation."

Lena H. Sun, Fenit Nirappil and Aaron Schaffer report for the Washington Post December 15, 2024.

SEE ALSO:

"RFK Jr. Ally Filed Petition To Revoke FDA Approval For Polio Vaccine" (Washington Post)

 

Source: Washington Post, 12/16/2024