And, because of that, Osterholm said he “wouldn’t want my kids going to Florida in the years ahead, to go to Walt Disney World or any place like that.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a noted vaccine skeptic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which falls under his leadership, has been hit by a raft of resignations and firings in recent days.
Osterholm commented: “We basically are losing all the safety nets that we had with the public health system and vaccines are at the heart of it and of course this administration is doing everything it can to eliminate or if not totally eliminate vaccines for people. We are really at the point where we can either go with science and what we’ve accomplished over 100 years in improving public health or we can go with magic, smoke and mirrors and that’s what this is really all about.”