Another week brings more health care proposals, as incoming President Donald Trump and his pick for the head of the Department of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. share plans to change up some establishments throughout the United States. From vaccine access to funding changes to firing staffers at the National Institutes of Health, it seems no area will be untouched by the new administration.
One major area of concern throughout the country is vaccines. Recently, Trump voiced distaste for school vaccine mandates and said he and Kennedy are going to have a "big discussion" about childhood vaccination programs. Kennedy has long been known as an anti-vaccine advocate who has repeated debunked claims linking autism and vaccination (which Trump has also echoed) and is now working with a lawyer who previously tried to revoke approval of the polio vaccine for children.