Froma Harrop’s op-ed “A lot of Americans ‘are going to die,’ courtesy of RFK Jr.” (June 30 print edition) is right on the money.
I agree with her that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “nutty” decisions based on “junk science” undermine the public’s trust in vaccines, resulting in fewer people being vaccinated. The harm is not theoretical. Harrop cites Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data showing a quarter of a million Americans died unnecessarily from Covid due to vaccine hesitancy.
RFK Jr.’s firing of key personnel starves research into the development of new vaccines and other cures. Harrop concludes that only people who keep up with the science will survive. I need to add that well-informed people without financial resources will not survive either. Without CDC approval, insurance companies will feel justified to deny coverage of the cost of immunizations.
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We live in a time when it feels like our government won’t have our backs when the next pandemic happens. Certainly not while RFK Jr. heads the Department of Health and Human Services.
Cathy Luh, MD
Creve Coeur
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