Olivia Nuzzi, RFK Jr and Vanity Fair
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Mandy Moore is disgusted with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The actress, 41, took to her Instagram Stories on Friday, December 5, to blast the controversial Secretary of Health and Human Services after it was announced that a CDC panel voted against the long-established recommendation that newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine.
Under Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Department of Health and Human Services uses its social media channels to promote Kennedy himself and his agenda.
The new chair of the panel remade by Kennedy oversaw the overturning of the hepatitis B birth-dose guidance.
Friday's session of a vaccine panel dominated by skeptics was chaotically at odds with past practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The committee, which has formed a working group to look at the entire childhood vaccine schedule, began that discussion on Friday with a presentation by Aaron Siri, a lawyer who is close to Mr. Kennedy and has pushed for the government to revoke its approval of the stand-alone polio vaccine.
New chief executive Peter ter Kulve said he is aligned with the Make America Healthy Again movement, endorsing the push for higher-quality foods despite selling high-calorie products.
RFK and his sycophants are risking children's lives all to satisfy their own cockamamie conspiracy theories," said the Maryland U.S. senator.
A federal vaccine advisory committee has voted to end a longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.
Olivia Nuzzi's new book "American Canto" revealed how she advised Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on endorsement options during his campaign before he joined President Donald Trump's cabinet.