RFK Jr. Has Power to Worsen Flagging US Vaccination Rates (1)

The world is trying to figure out how much Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can do to limit vaccine use. It turns out, quite a lot.

If confirmed by the Senate to become Secretary of Health and Human Services in the next Trump administration, Kennedy will influence leadership and staff choices at agencies that develop, approve, recommend, distribute and stockpile vaccines. Accounting for about a quarter of the federal budget, HHS has pervasive reach into the lives and health of all Americans.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Photographer: Hannah Beier/Bloomberg

“We’ll begin to see more in terms of just personnel, the old adage that personnel is policy,” ...