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Beyond the Noise #63: Giving infectious diseases a break
Here is somewhat of an update on RFK, Jr.'s and Sen. Bill Cassidy's measles epidemic in the US, the epidemic that Kennedy is seemingly completely ignoring and the epidemic which Kennedy has been allowed to ignore by Sen. Bill Cassidy, who at some point in his life seems to have taken the Hippocratic Oath, an oath which Cassidy also seems to have wholly forgotten out of political convenience.
How Bill Cassidy, a lifelong vaccination advocate, wound up voting for RFK Jr. as health secretary
ANNE FLAHERTY, WILL MCDUFFIE, CHEYENNE HASLETT and ALLISON PECORIN
Tue, February 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM CST
On Monday night, just hours ahead of a Senate committee vote Tuesday on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination as health secretary, Sen. Bill Cassidy was still deciding what to do.
Cassidy, who worked 30 years in public hospitals in Louisiana, is a lifelong advocate of vaccinations. After watching a young woman almost die of liver failure after contracting hepatitis B, the doctor helped to create a program offering free shots to school children.
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Now, Cassidy was the sole GOP senator on the Senate Finance Committee openly questioning whether Kennedy was the right man for the job. A single "no" vote by any Republican on the panel could have been enough to derail the nomination by President Donald Trump, who said he picked Kennedy to "go wild" on issues related to food, medicine and health.
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In particular, Cassidy was worried about a potential measles outbreak if Kennedy were to assume control of America's health agencies and continue to raise doubt about the vaccine, which had been used for decades to prevent the highly contagious and potentially deadly childhood disease.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/bill-cassidy-lifelong-vaccination-advocate-234445885.html
ANNE FLAHERTY, WILL MCDUFFIE, CHEYENNE HASLETT and ALLISON PECORIN
Tue, February 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM CST
On Monday night, just hours ahead of a Senate committee vote Tuesday on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination as health secretary, Sen. Bill Cassidy was still deciding what to do.
Cassidy, who worked 30 years in public hospitals in Louisiana, is a lifelong advocate of vaccinations. After watching a young woman almost die of liver failure after contracting hepatitis B, the doctor helped to create a program offering free shots to school children.
...
Now, Cassidy was the sole GOP senator on the Senate Finance Committee openly questioning whether Kennedy was the right man for the job. A single "no" vote by any Republican on the panel could have been enough to derail the nomination by President Donald Trump, who said he picked Kennedy to "go wild" on issues related to food, medicine and health.
...
In particular, Cassidy was worried about a potential measles outbreak if Kennedy were to assume control of America's health agencies and continue to raise doubt about the vaccine, which had been used for decades to prevent the highly contagious and potentially deadly childhood disease.
...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bill-cassidy-lifelong-vaccination-advocate-234445885.html