{"id":110893,"date":"2024-11-15T21:56:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T17:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=110893"},"modified":"2024-11-18T16:31:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T12:31:06","slug":"trump-nominates-vaccine-skeptic-robert-f-kennedy-jr-to-head-us-health-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/110893\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump nominates vaccine skeptic Robert F Kennedy Jr to head US Health Department"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Donald Trump has picked vaccine skeptic and former independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr as his health secretary, as the president-elect continues to build his new administration, the BBC<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

If his nomination is ratified by the Senate, he will lead a huge agency overseeing everything from food safety to medical research and welfare programs.<\/p>\n

Trump says RFK Jr will “help make America healthy again.”<\/p>\n

The executive director of the American Public Health Association (APHA) said the organization will “absolutely oppose” Kennedy’s nomination.<\/p>\n

As CNN writes, Kennedy previously claimed that vaccines are not safe and effective and expressed desire to fire 600 people at the National Institutes of Health.<\/p>\n

According to the BBC, shares in vaccine makers have dropped in early trading after the president-elect nominated the vaccine skeptic.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump has picked vaccine skeptic and former independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr as his health secretary, as the president-elect continues to build his new administration, the BBC writes. If his nomination is ratified by the Senate, he will lead a huge agency overseeing everything from food safety to medical research and welfare […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":110295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}