Corey Watts

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Infectious diseases physician

Article: “As Ms. Loomer’s campaign escalated, the federal health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who oversees the F.D.A., had privately defended Dr. Prasad, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Kennedy’s support, they said, stemmed in part from Dr. Prasad’s role overseeing vaccines. During his brief tenure at the F.D.A. Dr. Prasad had already limited the use of Covid shots and had amped up warnings about a rare cardiac side effect of the inoculations.”
Article quote: “But does anyone believe that is why Marks is out of a job? RFK Jr. has not been stressing the need for tighter approval standards. Instead, he and his department seem to have been largely focused on vaccines — postponing advisory committee meetings, defunding studies that might lead to new vaccines, even planning a study to re-explore autism and vaccines and, apparently, hiring a widely known vaccine critic to help advance that study. Meanwhile, billions of dollars have been cut from the grants paid to academic scientists, setting the entire U.S. research apparatus into chaos. Kennedy, meanwhile, has faced a large measles outbreak by seeming anything but enthusiastic about the measles vaccine, one of the safest and most effective medical products in existence.”