National Nurses United (NNU) and Defend Public Health (DPH) meet to condemn the appointment of Casey means for the American general surgeon, affirming that his non-scientific and anti-vaccine rhetoric represents a serious threat to public health.
“The nurses believe that everyone has the right to health, and we work tirelessly every day, in health establishments across this country, to take care of our patients and defend their right to health,” said Nancy Hagans, RN and President of the NNU. “The general surgeon should provide information that helps our patients, but Casey means the opposite: it promotes non-scientific and anti-vaccine views that endanger public health.”
“Confirm Casey means that the general surgeon means double the professional public health fault that we see all year round by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,” said virologist James Alwine, member of the Coordination Committee for Public Defense Public Health. “The Senate must get up and demand a general surgeon who respects science and cares about the facts.”
Means praised non -scientific points of view, including Promote the consumption of raw milk as superior on pasteurized products and Distribute false complaints On the supposed dangers of vaccines. Giving him the platform for the general role of the surgeon will only harm public health. The general surgeon is expected to provide Americans with the best scientific information about how to improve their health and supervise the commanded body of American public services, which is vital for the emergency and the response to disasters, such as infectious epidemics of disease.
Specifically means promotion The deregulation of food security rules and other proven health -based health protections, which have saved millions of lives since their creation, in addition to denigrating infantile vaccination calendars several times. She has describe Public health protections as “imprisoned by regulation over-tob” and claims that less regulation will improve public health-coverage for the privatization of businesses and profit.
The current administration has already ravaged public health by reducing significant staff and financing for public health agencies and programs, with drastic impacts on the health of people. Researchers estimate That at least 90,000 adults and 188,000 children in the United States and worldwide died because of these cuts, with millions of additional deaths planned for the coming years. Confirm that Casey means as an American general surgeon will endanger more lives.
As the largest union and professional association for nurses authorized in the United States, the NNU fights for health justice and scientific protections for patients and health workers. As a network of public health researchers, health workers, defenders and allies, DPH is fighting to protect all of the current administration from affected public health policies based on science.
National Nurses United is the union and fastest of the Union and the professional association of nurses authorized in the United States with more than 225,000 members nationally. The affiliates of the NNU include California Nurses Association / National Nurses Organization Committee, DC Nurses Association, Michigan Nurses Association, Minnesota Nurses Association and New York State Nurses Association.