Perhaps no painful vote for Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican Louisiana and Talib’s doctor, was not voting to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Junior as Minister of Health Trump. Mr. Cassidy wondered loudly for several days how Mr. Kennedy, the most hiding and strong critic in vaccine, may deal with the crisis of infectious diseases.
Now, as in the outbreak of measles in West Texas, Mr. Cassidy discovered. He said that everything descends to the “galactal”.
On Monday, days after the Texas prevalence of an uncomplicated child, Mr. Cassidy, head of the Senate Health Committee had cut a corridor in the Capitol when asked about Mr. Kennedy. He referred to a Fox News Digital Piece Mr. Kennedy advised the fathers to consult with their doctors about vaccination, while describing it as a “personal” decision.
He said: “This opening in Fox was very encouraging for people to vaccinate.”
He mentioned that Mr. Kennedy described it as a personal choice, Mr. Cassidy thought for a moment. “If you want to love, or analyze it to the line, you can say,” discuss with your doctor. “He said:” We provide available vaccines. We do this for vaccination. We do it for vaccination. So if you took the gabbla from him, the jistal was, “Let’s achieve!”
Mr. Cassidy’s evaluation reflects that the entire message of Mr. Kennedy is more than the total of its parts-reflecting how the measles spread has shed light on how Mr. Trump chooses the unconventional to manage the best health agency in the country to a country’s perspective once in the political current, creating discomfort for some Republicans.
As a founder and chairman to defend children’s health, and then as a presidential candidate, Mr. Kennedy repeatedly reduced the benefits of vaccination. It has been repeatedly suggested that measles, mumps, and rows cause autism, despite intensive research that did not find any connection.
Since winning the Trump conference to head the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services, Mr. Kennedy has followed an accurate line on this issue. Some of his recent statements, in which he stopped condemning the vaccines, angered some of his supporters. But its caution -decreasing support for vaccination, and promoting alternative treatments to treat measles, angered the prevailing scientists who say that one way to prevent measles is the vaccine.
“This, as I say, is the most accurate minimum that one can do in the middle of the outbreak of measles.
But Del Bigtree, former director of communications to Mr. Kennedy and one of his closest allies, said that Mr. Kennedy was doing exactly what he said he would: put all options on the table and allow parents to borrow themselves.
He used the word “balance” to describe Mr. Kennedy’s approach, and he said that the media was “incredibly deceived and in some respects, by danger by creating a state of death from measles.”
When asked about the statement of Mr. Cassidy “Gestalt”, Andrew Nixon, the department’s spokesman, pointed to the FOX opinion article. He said that the Minister of Health’s comment can talk about himself: “The vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to the immunity of society, and to protect those who cannot vaccinate for medical reasons.”
Mr. Cassidy, a liver specialist, made his career in medicine to treat unbelievable patients as a doctor in the charitable hospital system in Louisiana. He is a fierce supporter of vaccines.
But he also faces a major competitor to Republicans in 2026, and voted against Mr. Kennedy, which led to Mr. Trump to support his opponent-and by provoking a potential violent reaction between voters who are skeptical in vaccine.
Mr. Kennedy’s “Medical Freedom” movement, which he calls “making America healthy again”, is now deeply firmly in the Republican Party. About the Korona virus in many conservatives against vaccine states, even for children who enroll in school. Throughout the country, approximately 1,000 candidates, almost republicans, nominated for an optional office in November with support Standing for health freedomIt is a non -profit institution in Florida that prompted to facilitate parents to cancel the requirements of the school vaccine.
White Aires, a Republican strategic expert, also a member of West Texas, said the situation in West Texas is forcing an account that the situation in West Texas is forced at the expense of the account, for Mr. Cassidy and other Republicans who were uncomfortable with Mr. Kennedy, the situation in West Texas is forced at the expense. International International, An organization set a goal to end polio by enhancing vaccination around the world.
“His position on the vaccines was well known when he was nominated, and when the US Senate confirmed it,” said Mr. Airez. “Everyone knew, with their eyes open, that his positions could lead to the return of measles.”
With the low vaccination rates throughout the country, public health experts warned that measles will be the first infectious disease. But it is not possible to blame measles spread in Texas on Mr. Kennedy. This disease began to spread within the Minunite community, an isolated Christian group that settled in West Texas in the 1970s; Many Mennonites are not immune and virus.
Mr. Kennedy reduced the situation in Texas during the cabinet meeting with Mr. Trump last week, saying that the beast of measles in the United States was “unusual.” He strengthened his opinion on Fox to use vitamin A, which was shown by useful studies in the treatment of measles in children with malnutrition.
Follow with a Interview with Fox News in advance It was broadcast on Tuesday, when he said that parents and doctors should think about alternative methods, including cod liver oil, to treat measles. He also admitted that vaccines “prevent infection.” But again, Mr. Kennedy did not urge the Americans to have a vaccination.
The Ministry of Health in Texas He issued a health alert On January 23, two cases of measles were reported. Since then, nearly 160 people have contracted the disease and 22 were taken to the hospital. Disease Control and Prevention Centers said on Tuesday that it had sent some “diseases” to Texas to support local officials in the response.
By Wednesday, while Mr. Cassidy seemed satisfied with Mr. Kennedy’s dealings with the matter, Senator was paying another main health candidate on measles, vaccines and autism.
He wanted to know whether Dr. Jay Bhatershaya, who appeared before the Senate Health Committee for his confirmation session as Trump’s choice of leading the national health institutes, aims to spend dollars tax on research in interesting theory that vaccines cause autism. Mr. Kennedy has tried again and repeatedly, to get Mr. Kennedy to reject this theory in his confirmation session.
Dr. Bahtashariya told Al -Senator that he was “convinced” that there is no connection between measles vaccine and autism. But like Mr. Kennedy, he said he supported additional research, if only to calm the fears of nervous parents.
Mr. Cassidy was angry, saying that it had already been settled in years of intensive research. He said that new studies will waste taxpayers and take off money from studies that may reveal the real causes of autism. He bombed his grip on the table.
He said with a wave of his hand: “If we get rid of the money here, this is less than the money that we must actually follow the real reason.”
In any case, Mr. Cassidy said, more research will not change the minds. He said: “There are people who differ from the world,” adding: “People still think that Elvis is alive.”
To secure Mr. Cassidy’s vote last month, Mr. Kennedy presented a series of privileges, which Mr. Cassidy set in Senate Earth letter. They included a pledge not to dissolve the Committee of Experts, which advises the centers of control of diseases and preventing them on vaccines, and leaving sound data on the site of the Disease Control Center, saying that vaccines do not cause autism.
Mr. Kennedy also promised to have an “unprecedented cooperative relationship” with Mr. Cassidy, and to talk or talk to him “several times a month”, and to give pre -paid notice in Congress about any changes in the policy of vaccine.
“I will carefully monitor any effort to incorrectly planting public fear around the vaccines between the references of the coincidence and the story,” said Mr. Cassidy at the time.
On his way to the Senate Chamber on Monday, he said he believed that Mr. Kennedy was doing a good job with Texas’s response. “He deals with her well,” Senator said. He was asked if he had talked to Mr. Kennedy about the measles outbreak.
“We are talking regularly,” said Mr. Cassidy.