Kennedy\u2019s hearing signifies how close a man with medically racist beliefs is to becoming the US\u2019s leading health official<\/p>\n
During Robert F Kennedy Jr\u2019s Senate confirmation hearing on 30 January, Angela Alsobrooks, a Democratic senator from Maryland, pressed the nominee on his past claims that Black people have a stronger immune system than white people and thereby, should receive vaccines on a different schedule than them. \u201cWhat different vaccine schedule would you say I should have received?\u201d Alsobrooks, who is Black, asked the health secretary nominee. Kennedy then referenced a \u201cseries of studies\u201d showing that \u201cto particular antigens, Blacks have a much stronger reaction\u201d.<\/p>\n
The exchange is cause for alarm for many, as it signified how close a man who holds medically racist beliefs was to becoming the country\u2019s leading health official. Dr Richard Kennedy \u2013 an author of the study<\/a> referenced at the hearing, who is not related to Kennedy \u2013 told NPR<\/a> that while it\u2019s true the immune response to vaccination can vary by race, sex and \u201cpotentially dozens of other factors\u201d, the data does not support a change in vaccine schedule based on race.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kennedy\u2019s hearing signifies how close a man with medically racist beliefs is to becoming the US\u2019s leading health official During Robert F Kennedy Jr\u2019s Senate confirmation hearing on 30 January, Angela Alsobrooks, a Democratic senator from Maryland, pressed the nominee on his past claims that Black people have a stronger immune system than white people … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}