It’s been a tumultuous week for U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He and the Trump Administration fired Susan Monarez, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), just a month after she was confirmed, which triggered a series of high-profile resignations within the agency. Days later, nine former CDC leaders called on Kennedy to resign . Underlying this tumult is Kennedy’s vaccine-skeptical agenda, and on Sept. 4, Kennedy defended his controversial actions at HHS during a Senate hearing—in which he also maintained his skepticism about vaccines.

“When were you lying, Sir: when you told this committee that you were not anti-vax, or when you told Americans that there’s no safe and effective vaccine?” Sen. Tina Smith, a Democrat from M

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