RFK JR's controversial remark about black people who do not need the same vaccines as white people have fueled widespread conviction of top doctors.
The 71-year-old claimed four years ago that 'vaccine schedules' should be adapted to different breeds because black people have 'better immune system'.
“We should not give black people the same vaccine schedule that is given to whites, because their immune system is better than ours,” he said in February 2021.
The comment came back to chase him during his confirmation hearings to become the next health secretary of America in the midst of a fiery exchange with a democratic senator.
Maryland Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, who is black, grilled RFK JR about the comment while he asked him how he thought she should have been vaccinated differently.
RFK JR referred to some articles that suggested that people of African-American descent had a stronger immune response to measles and rubella vaccines than white people.
“Mr. Kennedy, with all due respect, is so dangerous,” Alsobroks hit back. 'Your voice would be a voice that parents listen to, that is so dangerous.
“I will vote against your nomination because your opinion is dangerous for our state and for our country.”
Since then, several top doctors have spoken to condemn RFK JR's remark as inaccurate. Primary doctor Dr. ONI Blackstock shot it as 'scientific racism'.
RFK JR's controversial remark about black people who do not need the same vaccines as white people have fueled widespread conviction of top doctors
Maryland Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, who is black, grilled RFK JR about the comment while he asked him how he thought she should have been vaccinated otherwise
'The comment that [Kennedy] Made about the vaccine schedule, it is actually scientific racism, that is invalidated, “Blackstock told Huffpost.
“He really commits this false conviction that black people in one way or another biologically differ from white people and thus justify differential and ultimately unequal treatment for black people versus white people.”
Joe Bervell, a recently medically graduated and medical mythbuster on social media, said Huffpost that there is no evidence that vaccine schedules should take into account.
'At the moment it is how vaccine schedules are tailor -made, based on things like your age, your exposure risk, if you have other chronic underlying health problems – but race is not one of them, and there is no research that suggests it should be pointed , “he said.
“In medicine we know in the knowledge that race is a social construct, which means that you cannot look at someone's genes and identify what breed they are.”
Bervell said it was disturbing that RFK JR had doubled on his commentary from 2021 just when he approaches the seat of power in the health department.
“He defended what he said, what I think, for me, that's where the problem lies – is not necessarily the fact of the wrong information there, but the fact that he was not willing to at least confront it or on it to admit stage, “he said.
Bervell added that RFK JR's remark on one of the larger health care phases that this idea that race -based medicine should still exist, while that is actually what many scientists have recently tried to eradicate '.
RFK JR is known for its controversial views on vaccines, including spreading the false claim that certain Jabs can cause autism.
He was confirmed last week as secretary of health and human services after senators had voted 52-48 to approve the leader of President Donald Trump.
RFK JR is known for its controversial views on vaccines, including spreading the false claim that certain Jabs can cause autism
The CDC has scrubbed its successful 'wild to mild' flu vaccincial campaign
In one of his first movements in the role, RFK JR attracted promotional advertisements for vaccines and postponed a meeting of important vaccine advisers.
He ordered the CDC to scrub his digital 'Wilde to mild' flu vaccincial campaign that placed a lion next to an analogy next to the way in which the shot has placed the virus 'Tames' next to each other.
The campaign was a reaction to falling flu vaccination rates and a particularly viceful flu season.
But Kennedy wants the CDC to leave Dudge tactics and its vaccincommunication focuses on 'informed permission' – whereby the patient entails the medical risks and benefits and makes them come to their own decision.
In the meantime, the first meeting of the year of the influential panel of the CDC of Vaccin experts has been delayed for an indefinite period of time, which is the first time that the meeting has been postponed in more than 40 years, except during the emergency covid pandemie.
The Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) would meet next week to discuss its recommendations for COVID, meningococcal virus, Influenza, RSV, HPV and Monkeypox.
The orders, which come to the end of Kennedy's first week as secretary of the Ministry of Health and Human Services, have taken care of care among some health workers.
