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In a 58-second video posted on the social media site X, Kennedy said he removed COVID-19 shots from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendations for those groups. No one from the CDC was in the video, and CDC officials referred questions about the announcement to Kennedy and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

U.S. health officials, following recommendations by infectious disease experts, have been urging annual COVID-19 boosters for all Americans ages 6 months and older.

A CDC advisory panel is set to meets in June to make recommendations about the fall shots. Among its options are suggesting shots for high-risk groups but still giving lower-risk people the choice to get vaccinated.

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[–] randompasta 111 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Our public health is being limited by a conspiracy theorist.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

healthy people spend less money on healthcare, therefore less profits for your owners, therefore lets make everyone sick

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[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Or someone who just like making people sick. After Madagascar and other mass fatalities he was involved with, it might just be that he is an old fashioned psychopathic killer whose weapon is germs?

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Screw that guidance. I'll be getting the new COVID shot as soon as its available (in whatever country I have to travel to to get it).

What this really means is that if you want a COVID shot, you'll have to pay out-of-pocket because insurance will now say its not necessary for health.

[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It looks like the list of at-risk groups eligible for the vaccine will be pretty extensive so you might be able to get it in the US with a bit of creativity.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

Just be wary of how you do that.

There are a lot of rules in the ACA (which... is totally gonna be a thing once the trump administration remembers it) against it, but if you get it put down that you are in an at risk group that can have some long term monetary implications.

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[–] NotAGamer@lemmy.org 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People are going to die because of his ignorance. He's a murderer.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

"I don't think people should be taking medical advice from me.". RFK Jr, Health and Human Services Secretary, May 14, 2025

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] the_q@lemm.ee 50 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Where do you think you are right now?

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 63 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

"Even Jason figured it out?!"

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

Hey how’s that measles outbreak going

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Noted - healthy children and pregnant women should still get the shots.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Insurance companies will likely take their cues from him.

Which means you'd be able to get your vaccine...but if it's not "necessary", you'll have to pay cash.

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I can’t comprehend how they can still be salty about the pandemic vaccines.

Sure, lots of things went wrong in the pandemic, but those who got the jab went on with their lives, no health issues.

A lot of people made an ass of themselves and now have to pretend for the rest of their lives that vaccines don’t work.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A lot of people made an ass of themselves and now have to pretend for the rest of their lives that vaccines don’t work.

So many of our problems literally boil down to people refusing to ever admit they were wrong about anything

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They hated so many things about the pandemic. I don't think the Venn diagram of the various idiotic pet peeves and conspiracy theories is exactly one circle, but there seems to be a lot of resentment for many things coming from the same basic set of people, clustered in the Republican Party. They hated so many things.

  1. The people that took measures to protect themselves and others, meaning social distancing and masks. The qons hated this and they hated it so much. They hated this stark reminder that donvict couldn't just wish Covid away and make the stock market behave as he wished. They would often claim they saw everyone in cars by themselves with masks on, as if that was the only such use, lol. But boy they were mad about it!
  1. The government stepping to help people in need with stimulus checks. This seemed to enrage a lot of them, even if they cashed that check themselves.

  2. The notion that there was a safe and effective vaccine seems to have really driven them up the wall. I don't know if it's because they saw lots of people not relying on "thoughts and prayers" when it came to a pandemic? They really hated being laughed at about the horse dewormer stuff, let me tell you that much.

  3. I think what drove some of them the craziest is that many of them have a need to be in-person to bully someone and Covid probably denied them a lot of that. I noticed the people wanting people "back to work" the most were these types. I think Joe being able to "campaign from his basement" as donnie failed to get re-elected and do the most basic of things to be popular during a pandemic really just drove them to total incoherence. Many of them were already marginal with the Pizzagate and Qanon shit, but Covid drove them right off a cliff. I think Obama getting elected, then Covid drove a large portion of our population into batshit insanity.

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[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

My husband and I got Covid last week. Probably the new variant. Our latest booster was 6 months ago. This variant KICKED OUR ASS. We are on week 2 of coughing, wheezing, and feeling extremely tired. Lost a bunch of income from our respective businesses because we were not able to do any work at all.

This was a stark reminder of how important it is to keep up with boosters. I hope that we can find a way to keep getting them, even if that means paying out of pocket or lying.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That is just not a proper headline... You are missing critical context? More like, "Kennedy, who recently willingly swam in literal shit with his own grandchildren, says..."

[–] D_C@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago

"Kennedy, who's brain was 'partially' eaten by a worm, says..."

[–] giacomo@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i dont actually trust Kennedy to know anything about health though...

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

lol y'all elected the dude from men in black to lead the fucking health department. bobbly looks like an insect crawled inside him, took over, and is now trying its best to pass as human.

oh, wait

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It is not an elected position. We just elected the dumbass who appointed him.

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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Didn't he just say not to take health advice from him a couple weeks ago?

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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago (9 children)

This is what happens when the Health Secretary is someone who never actually studied medicine, practiced as a doctor, or even spent time as a nurse.

[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And doesn’t actually believe germs cause disease. (https://www.youcanknowthings.com/germ-theory-2/ , but grab the quote from his book)

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Good news, the Secretary of Defense thinks the same!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47201923

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

pregnant women

Man, RFK really wants the US to just die out, make sure the next generation is dead or fucked up.

Let's not go to the US, it's a silly place

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

His latest proclamation is he wants anyone with an NIH grant to be required to publish in a gov run journal instead of, say, Lancet or Nature. He feels they are "corrupt" without providing a shred of evidence, never mind they are peer reviewed. So he'd prefer a gov system where papers could be rejected because they don't align with his conspiracy views and they wouldn't be allowed to publish elsewhere.

[–] Zenith@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

So many women about to be arrested for murder when their body spontaneously aborts a fetus due to a preventable COVID infection

[–] badelf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It's slower than Hitler's gas chambers, but they don't have to deal with the bodies.

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[–] garretble@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Oh the CDC said this?

What do doctors and scientists in respectable EU nations say?

EDIT: Sorry, this is poop river diver Kennedy saying this, not the CDC. I don't know what I was thinking. Maybe I have a brain worm.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Thank goodness we have the stupid conservatives in power so they can politicize everything.

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[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 1 week ago

Already trying to rebrand rfk jr?

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Kennedy just needs to let the worm run things.

[–] SabinStargem 9 points 1 week ago

This about sums up our collective future...

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