CBS Information medical contributor Dr. Céline Gounder is stating a few of Kennedy’s contradictions on vaccines.
He has commented that “there isn’t any vaccine that’s secure and efficient,” but in addition stated “a number of the live-virus vaccines are in all probability averting extra issues than they’re inflicting.”
RFK Jr. has repeated false claims linking vaccines to autism — a idea debunked by many years of scientific analysis. However he insists he isn’t anti-vax, saying in November, “If vaccines are working for any individual, I am not going to take that manner. Folks should have alternative.”
Gounder, who can also be editor-at-large for public well being at KFF Well being Information, stated on “CBS Mornings Plus” Wednesday forward of the listening to that Kennedy’s “personal phrases exhibit an actual confusion about vaccines and the science of vaccines.”
“He is saying, on the one hand, ‘Oh, possibly these reside virus vaccines, a few of these are OK,’ (however) he is particularly towards the measles vaccine that could be a reside virus vaccine,” once more contradicting himself.
Gounder alse known as his statements linking autism to vaccines “completely debunked.”
“We needs to be finding out what causes autism, however in the event you’re finding out the incorrect issues, you are by no means going to determine what it’s,” she stated. “I believe huge image on vaccines, he’s very harmful, each by way of the facility of the bully pulpit, but in addition by way of the facility of the CDC and the FDA.”
