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The Senate Health Committee on Thursday confirmed that the White House has drawn President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the centers of disease control and prevention centers.
The move took place a few hours ago by a former Florida lawmaker, a vaccine critic, Set to appear Before the US Senate Committee for Health, Education, Wages and Pensions for Certified hearing. The panel said the hearing, which was scheduled for ET at 10 am, is Cancellation.
Axios before Reported Decision on Thursday. Robert F. Kennedy, who guides the Department of Health and Human Services, said Welden was not ready for the role. The HHS CDC and all other federal health agencies oversees.
But Welden’s ideas are closely straight with Kennedy, which is a notorious vaccine. 71 -year -old Welden has long been questioned about the safety of some vaccines, promoting it A false claim. Connect vaccines to autism. In 2006, Welden appeared With parents, who claimed that the CDC had covered evidence of vaccination for children developing autism.
The CDC will re -evaluate it under Kennedy, despite the alleged decades of research.
While in Congress, Weldon patronized a bill that would transfer the responsibility of protecting the vaccine away from the CDC. He claimed that the agency’s interests are a dispute because it buys and promotes the vaccine. This bill never made it a past committees.
Weldon is an internal medicine doctor who served 14 years in Congress from 1995 to 2009.
Democrat San Petty Murray, who belongs to a Washington and Help Committee member, said she was “deeply upset” with false claims about Welden’s vaccines.
In a statement on Thursday, Murray said, “When I do not have little confidence in doing so on the Trump administration, they should immediately nominate someone for a position that believes in the least basic science and will help them to monitor the CDC’s important work and prevent deadly outbreaks.”
He added that Kennedy has already been causing irregular damage to the spread of lies and unknowns as a top health official in the United States.
The HHS did not immediately respond to the request to comment on why the administration pulled Weldon’s nomination and when Trump could choose another person for the post.
