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we’ve seen a seismic shakeup inside the Department of Health and Human Services
and unprecedented discord between the agency, scientists, and doctors.
HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. is
bucking the science-backed guidance of physicians on vaccines.
That’s angered some Democrats. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren went after Kennedy over his pseudoscientific approach to running the agency
during a Senate hearing Thursday.
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