Members of the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday grilled Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about federal vaccine policy and turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some Republican senators who had voted to confirm Kennedy said he had backtracked on his promises by restricting access to the Covid-19 vaccine.
Nick Anderson leads this week’s editorial cartoon gallery with his explanation of Kennedy’s contradictory statements on vaccines then and now. The parasitic worm found in his brain says, “I’m not anti-vax!” Kennedy says, “I am.”
Walt Handelsman draws a doctor and children in a boat going over a waterfall with rocks named for vaccine-preventable diseases, while Kennedy holds their paddle. Dana Summers sees those diseases as cars makin