A rare display of bipartisan consensus was seen Thursday at a remarkably contentious Senate hearing with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy appeared before the Senate Finance Committee after an extraordinarily tumultuous week and a half in which he announced limited access to Covid vaccines and fired the newly confirmed director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ,Susan Monarez, leading to an exodus of senior officials at the agency.
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Over roughly three hours of questioning, Kennedy was more vocal in his anti-vaccine views than at previous Senate hearings and seemed to return to embracing fringe positions that experts have warned could seriously damage public health.
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