ITHIS IS NOT difficult to construct a scenario in which Donald Trump’s plans to “make America healthy again” (or MAHA) do the opposite. His plan for Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.is one of the country’s most prominent vaccine skeptics. The man who would head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which provides health coverage to two in five Americans, would be Mehmet Oz, a TV doctor who spoke about the medical benefits of communicating with the dead and invited a Reiki healer to assist him during the operation. Dave Weldon, a former congressman and physician who has also sowed doubt about vaccine safety, would head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which oversees the country’s vaccination schedules. Unless Nixon’s China theory applies to public health, these are not the people America would want to take charge of public health in a pandemic – or even just during an outbreak ordinary.
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