Cod liver oil? Vaccinations? Skeptic GOP confronts himself with the tiny line of Kennedy on the Oder

Perhaps no vote was so painful for Senator Bill Cassidy, a republican and doctor in Louisiana than his vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of Health for President Trump. Mr. Cassidy wondered loudly for several days, like Kennedy, the most deafening and powerful vaccination critic, he can cope with the crisis of an infectious disease.

Now, when the Odra explosion goes crazy in Western Texas, Cassidy found out. Everything falls, said “Gestalt”.

On Monday, a few days after the explosion in Texas killed an unvaccinated child, Mr. Cassidy, who chaired the Senate of the Health Committee, cut the Capitol corridor when he was asked about Mr. Kennedy. Pointed to FOX News Digital opinion in which Mr. Kennedy advised his parents to consult the doctors on vaccinations, calling it a “personal” decision.

“This Fox editorial article encouraged people to vaccinate,” he said.

He reminded that Mr. Kennedy described it as a personal choice, Mr. Cassidy thought for a moment. “If you want, analyze it to the line, you can say:” Talk to your doctor, “said Cassidy. “He also said:” We provide vaccinations. We do it for vaccinations. We do it for vaccinations. So if you take Gestalt, the Gestalt was: “Let’s put vaccination!”

The assessment of Mr. Cassidy-that the whole message of Mr. Kennedy was more than the sum of his part-he confirms how the Odra explosion drew attention to how the unconventional choice of Mr. Trump to launch the highest health agency of the country, he once introduced a political perspective, as discomfort for some Republicans.

As the founder and chairman of his non -profit organization, the defense of children’s health, and later as a presidential candidate, Mr. Kennedy has repeatedly disregarded the benefits of vaccination. He has also repeatedly suggested that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine cause autism, despite the extensive tests that did not find any relationship.

Since Trump’s victory towards the extensive Health and Social Welfare Department, Mr. Kennedy went carefully in this matter. Some of his last statements, in which he stops from the condemnation of vaccines, incensed some of his supporters. But his less than the full exploit of vaccinations and its promotion of alternative measures of the Odra treatment, incensed mainstream scientists who claim that the only proven way to prevent measles is a vaccine.

“I would say that this is the weakest with a minimum that can be made in the middle of the Odra explosion,” said Dr. Adam Ratner, a pediatrician from Modern York, who has just published the book “Booster Strzały”, which warns against the revival of the Oder.

But Del Bigtree, former communication director of Kennedy and one of his closest allies, said that Kennedy was doing exactly what he said: placing all options on the table and allowing parents to decide.

He used the word “balance” to describe Mr. Kennedy’s approach, and said that the media are “extremely dishonest and in some respects alarmistic and risky, creating panic after the death of measles.”

When asked about the attention of Mr. Cassidy’s “Gestalt”, Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the department, referred to Fox’s opinion. He said that the secretary’s commentary on health can speak for themselves: “vaccines not only protect individual children from the Oder, but also contribute to the immunity of community, protecting those who are not vaccinations due to medical reasons.”

Mr. Cassidy, a liver specialist, made a career in medicine, treating uninsured patients as a doctor in the system of charity hospitals in Louisiana. He is a fierce supporter of vaccines.

But in 2026, in the face of a republican pretender, and voting against Mr. Kennedy risted that Trump prompted Trump to support his opponent-and causing potential opposition among the increasingly vaccination of the GOP electorate.

Kennedy’s “Medical Freedom” Movement, which he calls “Make America Health Again”, is now deeply rooted in the Republican Party. Coronevirus’s pandemic changed many conservatives against vaccine fines, even for children attending school. Almost 1,000 candidates, almost all republican, ran to the office to choose from in November throughout the country Mark yourself to the freedom of healthNon -Profit in Florida, which sought to make parents to resign from school vaccine requirements.

For Mr. Cassida and other Republicans who were restless about Mr. Kennedy, the situation in Western Texas forces counting, said Whit Ayres, a republican strategist, which is also a member Rotary International, An organization that has set the purpose of ending the polio by promoting vaccinations around the world.

“His position on vaccines was extremely well known when he was nominated and when he was confirmed by the United States Senate,” said Ayers. “Everyone, with open eyes, knew that his positions could lead to the revival of the Oder.”

Because vaccination rates have fallen throughout the country, public health experts warned that Odra would be the first infectious disease that would come back. But you can’t blame Mr. Kennedy in Texas. The disease began to spread in the Mennonite community, the islands of the Christian group, which settled in West Texas in the seventies; Many Mennonites are unvaccinated and susceptible to the virus.

Mr. Kennedy minimized the situation in Texas during the meeting of the office with Mr. Trump last week, saying that the outbreaks of the Oder in the United States “are not unusual.” His opinion FOX was conducive to the exploit of vitamin A, which showed that research is useful in the treatment of measles in malnourished children.

He continued Registered Fox News interview It is broadcast on Tuesday, in which he said that parents and doctors should consider alternative approaches, including cod liver oil, to treat measles. He also admitted that vaccines “prevent infection”. But once again Mr. Kennedy did not encourage the Americans to vaccinate.

Health Department in Texas issued a health warning On January 23, he reports two cases of measles. Since then, almost 160 people have contracted the disease, and 22 have been hospitalized. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday that he sent some “diseases detectives” to Texas to support local officials in response.

On Wednesday, when Mr. Cassidy seemed satisfied with Mr. Kennedy’s behavior in this case, the senator pushed another key nominated in matters of measles, vaccines and autism.

He wanted to know if Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, appearing in front of the Senate Health Committee for the interrogation confirming as the choice of Trump, which led the National Institutes of Health, intended to spend tax dollars for research on a discredited theory that vaccines cause autism. Mr. Cassidy repeatedly and unsuccessfully tried to force Mr. Kennedy to reject this theory during his own interrogation in confirmation.

Dr. Bhattacharya told the senator that he was “convinced” that he was not associated between the Oder vaccine and autism. But like Mr. Kennedy, he said he supported additional research, if only to tranquil his parents’ nervous fears.

Mr. Cassidy was furious, saying that the case has already been settled over the years extensive research. Modern research, said that they are wasting taxpayers’ dollars and will take money from research that can discover the real causes of autism. He pounded his fist on the table.

“If we piss off the money here,” he said with a wave of hand, “It’s less money that we must follow the real reason.”

In any case, Mr. Cassidy said, further research would not change his mind. “There are people who do not agree that the world is round,” he said, adding: “People still think that Elvis is alive.”

To secure Mr. Cassida’s voting last month, Mr. Kennedy made a series of concessions in which Mr. Cassidy presented Speech in the Senate. They included a commitment not to terminate the expert committee, which advises control centers and prevention of diseases on vaccines, and also leave intact statements on the CDC website with information that vaccines do not cause autism.

Mr. Kennedy also promised that he would have “unprecedented close working cooperation” with Mr. Cassida and meet him or talk to him “many times a month” and notify the congress in advance about any changes in vaccine policy.

“I will carefully watch carefully at all efforts to wrongly fall asleep the fear of vaccines between confusing references to convergence and anecdotes,” Cassidy said.

On Monday, on his way to the Senate chamber, he said that he thought that Mr. Kennedy was doing a good job with a reaction in Texas. “He copes well with it,” said the senator. He was asked if he talked to Mr. Kennedy about the outbreak of the Oder.

“We speak regularly,” Cassidy said, adding, “Let’s leave it.”