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Dr. Robert Redfield backs Kennedy’s efforts on vaccines

Thought Leader: Robert Redfield
February 19, 2025
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Former CDC director Robert Redfield joined POLITICO’s Lauren Gardner virtually at POLITICO Playbook’s First 100 Days Health Care Policy Breakfast.

Dr. Robert Redfield, who headed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the first Trump administration, supports Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts on vaccines.

Kennedy’s nomination and eventual confirmation as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services was complicated by his decades-old vaccine skepticism. And he has alienated many public health officials who fear he could discourage the public from getting routine vaccinations long proven safe.

But Redfield is fully supporting Kennedy — even after Kennedy refused to say vaccines do not cause autism during his confirmation hearing — and is now calling for more vaccine research, too.

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