Make America Healthy Again - Trump populism comes to health regulation (1 Viewer)

[superchuck500]

This is going to need a thread as we move forward - there are now clear signs that Trump supports a new, critical if not dubious approach on vaccination, and his HHS nominee RFK Jr. regularly espouses eating raw milk and raw meat . . . dietary components most experts agree are more dangerous than their heated counterparts.

Health is certainly one of those areas were anti-institutionalism and turning to popular influencers over medical science comes with genuine risk of harm.

Today Trump provided his most clear indication that he is a vaccine skeptic - claiming (falsely of course) that the USA doesn't "do as well" as other nations that use no vaccines at all.

 

[Optimus Prime]

A proponent of using the drug hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 despite scant evidence of its efficacy has been named to a top pandemic prevention role at the Department of Health and Human Services, the Washington Post reports.

Steven J Hatfill is a virologist who served in Donald Trump’s first administration, during which he promoted hydroxychloroquine to treat the virus in the early months of the pandemic, when vaccines and treatments were not yet available.

He recently started as a special adviser in the office of the director of the administration for strategic preparedness and response, which prepares the country to respond to pandemics, as well as chemical and biological attacks.

The Trump administration embraced using the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, along with other drugs such as ivermectin and chloroquine, as treatments against Covid-19, despite concerns over both their efficacy and potentially serious side-effects.

In June 2020, just months after the pandemic started, the Food and Drug Administration warned against using hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat Covid-19 over “reports of serious heart rhythm problems and other safety issues”, even after Trump approved ordering millions of doses of the drug for US patients from Brazil.

Last year, a study released at the onset of the pandemic that promoted hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 was withdrawn by the publisher of the medical journal.

In an interview with the Post, Hatfill defended his support of hydroxychloroquine, which remains in use to treat diseases including lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.

“There is no ambiguity there. It is a safe drug,” Hatfill said, noting that “they gave the drug to the president” in 2020, when Trump contracted Covid-19.............

US scientist who touted hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid named to pandemic prevention role

Steven J Hatfill, who promoted the drug despite scant evidence of efficacy, becomes special adviser at HHS

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Wasn’t sure which thread to put this in

 

[bird]

A proponent of using the drug hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 despite scant evidence of its efficacy has been named to a top pandemic prevention role at the Department of Health and Human Services, the Washington Post reports.

Steven J Hatfill is a virologist who served in Donald Trump’s first administration, during which he promoted hydroxychloroquine to treat the virus in the early months of the pandemic, when vaccines and treatments were not yet available.

He recently started as a special adviser in the office of the director of the administration for strategic preparedness and response, which prepares the country to respond to pandemics, as well as chemical and biological attacks.

The Trump administration embraced using the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, along with other drugs such as ivermectin and chloroquine, as treatments against Covid-19, despite concerns over both their efficacy and potentially serious side-effects.

In June 2020, just months after the pandemic started, the Food and Drug Administration warned against using hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat Covid-19 over “reports of serious heart rhythm problems and other safety issues”, even after Trump approved ordering millions of doses of the drug for US patients from Brazil.

Last year, a study released at the onset of the pandemic that promoted hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 was withdrawn by the publisher of the medical journal.

In an interview with the Post, Hatfill defended his support of hydroxychloroquine, which remains in use to treat diseases including lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.

“There is no ambiguity there. It is a safe drug,” Hatfill said, noting that “they gave the drug to the president” in 2020, when Trump contracted Covid-19.............

US scientist who touted hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid named to pandemic prevention role

Steven J Hatfill, who promoted the drug despite scant evidence of efficacy, becomes special adviser at HHS

www.theguardian.com

The rest of the world is either laughing at us or shaking heads in disappointment or disgust.

 

[Booker]

The rest of the world is either laughing at us or shaking heads in disappointment or disgust.

Both.

 

[Optimus Prime]

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday named Dr. Vinay Prasad — a hematologist-oncologist who has been accused of spreading misinformation about Covid vaccines and was an outspoken critic of the agency’s decision to approve Covid shots in children — as its new vaccine chief.

The FDA commissioner, Dr. Marty Makary, announced Prasad would lead the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research to agency employees earlier Tuesday and later on X.

Makary called the appointment “a significant step forward,” saying Prasad would bring “scientific rigor, independence, and transparency.”

Prasad comes from the University of California, San Francisco, where he most recently was a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics. He is a practicing physician, according to his website.

He spent much of the pandemic criticizing the FDA’s and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s response to the virus.

In a 2021 blog post and an accompanying video, Prasad suggested the national response to Covid might bring on the collapse of democracy, invoking the rise of Hitler and the Third Reich in Germany.

On the blog that year, Prasad downplayed the anti-vaccine activism of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — now the secretary of health and human services — specifically his role in a 2019 measles outbreak in Samoa.

On Bari Weiss’ contrarian website, The Free Press, Prasad seemed to defend Kennedy’s most controversial positions on vaccines, raw milk and fluoride by listing other countries that have policies that align with Kennedy’s views.………

FDA names oncologist Dr. Vinay Prasad, a Covid vaccine critic, as the new vaccine chief

Prasad was an outspoken critic of the FDA’s response to the pandemic, including the former vaccine chief, Dr. Peter Marks.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[fooferdoggie]

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday named Dr. Vinay Prasad — a hematologist-oncologist who has been accused of spreading misinformation about Covid vaccines and was an outspoken critic of the agency’s decision to approve Covid shots in children — as its new vaccine chief.

America your forked. red states you are tripple forked.

 

[superchuck500]

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

They are going out of their way to hire the most incompetent amongst us. This is insane and the Republican Party and its voters are cheering this insanity on.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Wednesday that two major federal agencies within the department would build a data system to research autism spectrum disorder.

Kennedy said the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services would collaborate to “link real-world data” in a way that would be consistent with privacy laws to research “chronic conditions.”

“We’re using this partnership to uncover the root causes of autism and other chronic diseases,” Kennedy said in a statement on Wednesday.

“We’re pulling back the curtain – with full transparency and accountability – to deliver the honest answers families have waited far too long to hear.”

Kennedy had earlier vowed to determine the cause of autism by September, even though researchers have studied it since the 1920s with no clearcut answers.…..

RFK Jr. announces plan to research autism with Medicare and Medicaid data

Comes as Kennedy continues his efforts to find the cause of the ‘autism epidemic’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[bird]

Look into Pink Himalayan salt scam for weight loss.

And looking a farmer in the eye and petting his cow doesn’t tell you schlitz about the cow’s milk.

 

[bird]

Trump’s New Pick for Surgeon General Dropped Out of Medical Residency and Has an Inactive Medical License

Casey Means, President Trump's nominee for Surgeon General, did not complete her residency and her medical license is currently inactive.

www.mediaite.com

Lunatic for surgeon general?

 

[Optimus Prime]

Trump’s failed Surgeon General pick lands on her feet with a job at RFK Jr’s HHS

Janette Nesheiwat’s nomination was pulled after her education credentials came under scrutiny and a Trump ally criticized her endorsement of the Covid vaccine.

www.independent.co.uk

 

[superchuck500]

 

[bird]

Patriotic duty?

Jesus Christ on a pop-tart, does anybody listen to the radical agitprop spewing out of the faces of these people?

What is next? The only acceptable art will be Christian Trumpism realism like the old USSR socialist realism?

 

[coldseat]

They are going out of their way to hire the most incompetent amongst us. This is insane and the Republican Party and its voters are cheering this insanity on.

Please bring back DEI, we need qualified people running these agencies.

 

[MT15]

They are actually trying to kill kids with this crap.



Edit - here is the post not shown, I removed the post author (an MD I have followed for years) because he doesn’t want his posts shown outside of Blue Sky.

 

[Neworleansfan]

Getting the population to have more kids but lower people life expectancy to the level similar to the early 1900s.

Save Social Security.

 

[MT15]

Before childhood vaccines, 1 in 5 babies died in their first year. 1 in 5.