Kennedy Sought to Stop Covid Vaccinations 6 Months After Rollout

[Ocelot II]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice to lead the nation’s health agencies, formally asked the Food and Drug Administration to revoke the authorization of all Covid vaccines during a deadly phase of the pandemic when thousands of Americans were still dying every week.

Mr. Kennedy filed a petition with the F.D.A. in May 2021 demanding that officials rescind authorization for the shots and refrain from approving any Covid vaccine in the future.

Just six months earlier, Mr. Trump had declared the Covid vaccines a miracle. At the time Mr. Kennedy filed the petition, half of American adults were receiving their shots. Schools were reopening and churches were filling.

Estimates had begun to show that the rapid rollout of Covid vaccines had already saved about 140,000 lives in the United States.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/health/rfk-jr-covid-vaccines.html or https://archive.ph/H9fwz

[FarPoint]

1. This man is soooo dangerous!

And...very fucked up.

[Dave Bowman]

2. That lunatic will enable a catastrophe.

[niyad]

3. Plague take you, you hate-filled, deliberately destructive waste of oxygen.

[cliffside]

4. We cannot forget what happened! "We Ran Out of Space': Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-funeral-home-morgue-bodies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qE4.5myS.U56-5hfu7UL2&smid=url-share


Published April 30, 2020
Updated Nov. 18, 2020

"The 40-foot trailer has been there for weeks, parked outside the Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home in Queens. Its refrigerator hums in an alley next to a check-cashing establishment. Thirty-six bodies, one atop the other, are stacked on shelves inside.

The funeral director, Patrick Kearns, has barely slept since the day he took charge of them. As he lies awake in the middle of the night, he knows there will be more.

... While hospitals bore the initial brunt of the crisis as sick people flooded emergency rooms, the sheer volume of human remains has pushed the system for caring for the dead to its limits, too: Hospital morgues, funeral homes, cemeteries and crematories are all overflowing and backed up.

... On a recent week, the crematory at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn handled about 130 cases — more than double its typical load. Richard Moylan, the cemetery’s president, said that two of his five ovens had broken down from overuse..."