As I thought about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s latest assault on our public health, I remembered some of the old Westerns I had seen on TV and at the movies: those moments when the cowpokes push open the swinging doors of the saloon, only to be met by the guy who took their guns, to keep the killing outside in what wasn’t really a street.
These days, I feel like I have to surrender my brains if I want to enter the world of Truskmumpia—especially that section of the kingdom controlled by the man with the brain worm. You know, the guy who has never been a doctor, never treated a patient, who isn’t an epidemiologist, a virologist, or a medical researcher. The guy who, as a lawyer, made millions going after vaccine manufacturers and spreading the myth that vaccines cause autism, that vaccines are worse than the diseases they target, shilling for the group he created, Children’s Health Defense; stoking hysteria about immunization; and supporting the sale of nutritional supplements that just don’t work against diseases like COVID-19.
Now with all the extraordinary powers granted him by our addled president, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has decided to deny us all access to life-saving vaccines. Yes, the very same man who, to gain final confirmation as Secretary of Health and Human Services, told the Senate he wouldn’t touch vaccines, now without a flicker of embarrassment, is doing exactly what he promised not to do.
So, in yet another episode of Trumpian deceit and stupidity, the supremely arrogant Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is poised to deliver untold harm to so many:
In case you imagine that this won’t really affect you, if you or your kids or anyone in your family or your co-workers has ever gotten the flu or pneumonia or come down with COVID, then you ought to pay attention.
The Trumpists have a significant home-court advantage. It is just so much easier to lie than to tell the truth. Lies are simple and reductionist. They certainly don’t have to make sense. Some recent examples: “The election was stolen,” “Obama’s a traitor,” “Gasoline is $1.99,” “Washington D.C. is a hellhole,” and “There’s no Epstein list.”
So, it is difficult to respond to RFK Jr.’s multiple distortions. It is easier to suggest doctors and medical researchers are in the pockets of Big Pharma than it is to prove they have integrity. And if you are a zealot without proper medical training, it is very easy to mischaracterize studies you don’t agree with, to misquote them, even distort their conclusions—especially when it is sometimes difficult to translate the very complex technicalities of measuring how millions of unique folks interact with standardized vaccines, the possible negative symptoms some might have, and the complicated statistical outcomes that underlie the decisions whether to use a particular vaccine variant against a particular strain of a mutating virus.
With all that in mind, while “A Comprehensive Review of mRNA Vaccines,” published in 2023 in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, is a bit technical, it is quite informative. The authors explain:
Vaccinations are the most effective boon for humanity for preventing the spread of infectious diseases. The impact of vaccination on the economic viability of the healthcare system is extremely large, since it lowers the treatment costs of infectious diseases. Additionally, vaccines also aid in reducing the impact and risk of outbreaks … The wider role of vaccination in public health and safety and its extended effects on economies was reiterated and seen during the COVID-19 pandemic. Successful vaccination campaigns have eradicated life-threatening infectious diseases including smallpox and polio and attempted to tackle COVID-19. The WHO estimates that vaccines prevent 2–3 million deaths each year from pertussis, tetanus, influenza, and measles … the most important and a key milestone was the development of mRNA vaccines, because of its rapid development and approval for the COVID-19 pandemic and its mRNA technology producing the desired vaccine antigen intracellularly …
mRNA vaccines have several important advantages as compared to the traditional vaccines … These include (i) safety, as mRNA does not integrate with the host DNA and is non-infectious; (ii) efficacy, as modifications in the mRNA structure can make the vaccine more stable and effective, with reduced immunogenicity; and (iii) manufacturing and scaleup efficiency, as mRNA vaccines are produced in a cell-free environment, hence allowing rapid, scalable, and cost-effective production. For example, a 5 L bioreactor can produce a million doses of mRNA vaccine in a single reaction. Additionally, mRNA vaccines have the provision to code for multiple antigens, thus strengthening the immune response against some resilient pathogens.
And here is a more patient-friendly explanation from Vaccinate Your Family:
mRNA vaccines are new to the market but have been studied for decades. This type of vaccine contains messenger RNA (mRNA), which are regulatory molecules that show the cell how to make proteins. In the case of the vaccine, the mRNA teaches the cell how to make a protein from the germ. That protein is introduced to the immune system, which triggers a response, causing the body to develop immunity to the germ. mRNA vaccines cannot affect or interact with your genetic material (DNA). The mRNA from the vaccine does not enter the nucleus of the cell where the DNA is located. Following the introduction of the germ’s protein to the immune system, the mRNA quickly breaks down and is eliminated from the body. COVID-19 vaccines created by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna are mRNA vaccines. These vaccines do not contain any live virus and cannot give you COVID-19.
I urge you to watch the video “COVID-19 and kids: How mRNA vaccines work” from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
Steve Inskeep from NPR interviewed Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist and the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota:
INSKEEP: Just for the average person, what makes an mRNA vaccine different from other kinds?
OSTERHOLM: Well, other vaccines that we normally have used in the past actually introduces into the body a part of the virus or the bacteria that you’re attempting to gain immunity for. And then your body recognizes that, makes basically an immune response to that. With mRNA, actually, what you do is you insert into the body a piece of material that actually causes cells in the human body to make one specific part of that virus. In this case, it’s called a spike protein. And then over a day or two, that stops happening. But now you have all that spike protein, what we call antigen, or the little part of it in the body, and you make antibody to it. So it’s a very, very effective way to train the human body to recognize something that shouldn’t be there and to make the immune response and that stops it from spreading in the body.
INSKEEP: And just to recall some recent history, this is a relatively new technology. It was used during the early phase of the COVID pandemic, and it would seem to have saved many lives. Is that all correct?
OSTERHOLM: … We’ve actually been studying mRNA vaccines for more than 15 years … there was a lot of information available when the pandemic began, and that’s one of the reasons why mRNA technology was chosen was because not only how well does it work and how quickly you can make the vaccine, but we actually had a fair amount of information already accumulated showing its safety and showing how it was very effective.
For those suspicious of “scientific experts,” here is how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—at least until RFK Jr. can disappear it—acknowledges how quickly manufacturers produced their mRNA COVID-19 vaccines:
The FDA notes the extensive efforts to ensure vaccine safety:
As for immunity, I would have thought by now I would be protected from MAGA stupidity. Sadly, however, this latest episode is driving me batty. Why? Because Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a prodigious liar. His declaration that “These vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu” is an outrageous lie. When he says, “We reviewed the science,” the truth is that he has mischaracterized the studies that contradict him. In fact, he relies on invented nonsense, not peer-reviewed science, as you will see when we look more closely at the “data” he cites to support his lies.
When he says he “Listened to the experts,” he means the self-proclaimed expert dentist from Australia or the guy who touted ivermectin to cure COVID or the associate professor from the University of Guelph in Ontario whose colleagues in extraordinary numbers criticized him for distorting studies. The fact is that the real experts who have been working for years and years effectively fighting these diseases and painstakingly developing vaccines have repeatedly demolished the claims of RFK’s anti-vax “experts.”
Steve Inskeep explores this with Michael Osterholm:
INSKEEP: … let me read you some words from the statement from RFK Jr. explaining this decision to cancel $500 million worth of funding. These are RFK’s words. Quote, ‘to replace the troubled mRNA programs, we’re prioritizing the development of safer, broader vaccine strategies, like whole-virus vaccines and novel platforms that don’t collapse when viruses mutate.’ … Do you believe those programs were troubled?
OSTERHOLM: The only trouble that those programs ran into was the fact that ideologically, this administration wants to reject the mRNA … It’s notable that this discovery of the effectiveness of the mRNA vaccine for COVID actually came out of the Trump 1 administration and was heralded as a major advance for which the president and the administration took a great deal of credit. So it’s somewhat ironic, if not painful, to hear four or five years later that now they’re totally rejecting it. So that’s the only problem we have right now with the vaccine.
INSKEEP: OK, so you think these 22 programs were working. Let’s look at another phrase from RFK – prioritizing safer, broader vaccine strategies – suggesting that mRNA is unsafe. Are those vaccines unsafe?
OSTERHOLM: … You know, one of the gifts that some people would suggest RFK has is his ability to use words. For those of us on the science side, that’s really a challenge because he doesn’t really understand, in many instances, what he is saying. When you talk about safety for the vaccines right now, this profile for mRNA vaccines is as safe as any we have.
INSKEEP: Another phrase – platforms that don’t collapse when viruses mutate. He suggests in this video that mRNA stops working when a virus mutates and that is a disadvantage. Is he correct?
OSTERHOLM: No, he’s not. In fact, what we have clear evidence of is that as the COVID virus has changed and changing slowly, what we see is that we just have some reduced protection from the vaccine. But we still have outstanding protection against serious illness, hospitalizations and deaths, and that is by far the most important set of outcomes that we worry about. So, in fact, his statement is absolutely incorrect.
INSKEEP: I want to note that during the pandemic, there was widespread anxiety about these vaccines … Did mRNA vaccines prove to be safe when used by the millions in the pandemic?
OSTERHOLM: In fact, not only very safe, but they’ve saved millions of lives … And I think that’s the challenge that we have right now is that what RFK has done is not only just withdrawn these new programs to support mRNA technology research, but he’s also created more doubt in the population … And so even if you have an effective vaccine but somebody has dissuaded you from using it, that’s a real challenge.
INSKEEP: How does this fit with RFK’s other moves on vaccines?
OSTERHOLM: Well, you know, many of us have believed that his whole entire approach to his position at Health and Human Services is to basically rid us of vaccines. He’s been an anti-vaccine zealot for many, many years, and this is just fitting in with that mold right there … He is just unilaterally making decisions about vaccines that in the past would have gone through review by experts, would have been discussed in the community. Now we just get a 58-second X video of him declaring, for example, that pregnant women can no longer get COVID vaccine or young children. I mean, it’s just – it’s something that we’ve never seen in public health in my 50-year career.
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Forgive me for hoping that Donald Trump might have remembered that he endorsed these groundbreaking mRNA vaccines and continually bragged about their success. But it was clearly too much to imagine he might actually have figured out that RFK Jr. is undermining his COVID-19 legacy because pretty much the only thing Trump did right was getting those mRNA vaccines into our arms in record time.
The New York Times puts it this way:
During the early days of the coronavirus pandemic in the spring of 2020, President Trump was warned by medical officials that the development of a vaccine that could turn the tide against Covid could be over a year away. For Mr. Trump, that timeline was not good enough. He demanded a faster program. The creation of that program, Operation Warp Speed, led to lifesaving vaccines that contained messenger RNA, or mRNA, a synthetic form of a genetic molecule that helps stimulate the immune system. Those vaccines are widely regarded in the scientific community as the quickest way to protect Americans against future threats, including viruses that could mushroom into a pandemic, or man-made menaces, like a bioweapons attack. Time has marched on and, apparently, so has Mr. Trump in his second term.
This week, the president all but shrugged off an announcement by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary and a longtime critic of vaccines, that a research division of his department had slashed $500 million in grants and contracts for work on mRNA vaccines.
‘That was now a long time ago, and we’re onto other things,’ the president told reporters on Wednesday …
[Emphasis added.]
How about we examine Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision more closely:
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), including the cancellation and de-scoping of various contracts and solicitations. The decision follows a comprehensive review of mRNA-related investments initiated during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
‘We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted,’ said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. ‘BARDA is terminating 22 mRNA vaccine development investments because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu. We’re shifting that funding toward safer, broader vaccine platforms that remain effective even as viruses mutate.’
The wind-down affects a range of programs including:
• Termination of contracts with Emory University and Tiba Biotech.
• De-scoping of mRNA-related work in existing contracts with Luminary Labs, ModeX, and Seqirus.
• Rejection or cancellation of multiple pre-award solicitations, including proposals from Pfizer, Sanofi Pasteur, CSL Seqirus, Gritstone, and others, as part of BARDA’s Rapid Response Partnership Vehicle (RRPV) and VITAL Hub …
… In total, this affects 22 projects worth nearly $500 million. Other uses of mRNA technology within the department are not impacted by this announcement.
‘Let me be absolutely clear: HHS supports safe, effective vaccines for every American who wants them. That’s why we’re moving beyond the limitations of mRNA and investing in better solutions,’ said Secretary Kennedy.
The move signals a broader shift in federal vaccine development priorities. Going forward, BARDA will focus on platforms with stronger safety records and transparent clinical and manufacturing data practices. Technologies that were funded during the emergency phase but failed to meet current scientific standards will be phased out in favor of evidence-based, ethically grounded solutions – like whole-virus vaccines and novel platforms.
In case you haven’t heard of “BARDA,” the mission of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) is “to develop medical countermeasures that address the public health and medical consequences of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) accidents, incidents and attacks, pandemic influenza, and emerging infectious diseases.”
And so, while Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the cancellation of 22 mRNA investments, it was not that long ago that BARDA was declaring success:
these investments have transformed pandemic influenza vaccine preparedness and seasonal influenza vaccines by enabling the development of multiple manufacturing platforms and formulations. These efforts helped drive the nation’s response to the Zika virus outbreaks (2016) and lead the development of medical countermeasures (MCMs) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2023). Longstanding and ongoing partnerships continue to expand these capabilities and address new threats. As such, our program’s mission aligns with BARDA’s 2022-2026 Strategic Plan, focused on strengthening efforts to protect Americans from any public health threat.
So how about we take a look at the data. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. believes that mRNA vaccines have failed to protect against COVID and flu. But here is what you first see when you access the material he tells us proves his point:
This is not a peer-reviewed study or a review vetted and published by a distinguished medical journal, but rather a compilation of claims and references gathered by several ideologically driven anti-vaccine advocates. Let’s start with some of the authors: Dr. Martin Wucher, MSC Dent Sc feq DDS); Dr. Byram Bridle, PhD; and Dr. Steven Hatfill. As for Dr. Martin Wucher, Google quickly directs us to “TOXIC SHOT: Facing the Dangers of the COVID ‘Vaccines,’ (Chapter 4: The Spike Protein Is Harmful By Itself)” and then, not surprisingly, to the organization that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. founded, the Childrens Health Defense Fund. It turns out the book is introduced by U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, who, as we quickly discover, knows as much about epidemics and immunization and COVID as a chipmunk. Yet another born-again expert who assures us that COVID-19 is equivalent to a bad flu:
How about Sen. Johnson tells that to the estimated 1.23 million families who lost a family member to COVID-19.
The senator’s current priorities are as revelatory as his COVID misinformation:
Investigating the Russia Collusion Hoax. DNI Tulsi Gabbard is providing documentation proving that the Russia collusion hoax was between President Obama, his henchmen, and their co-conspirators in the media. They fabricated the lie and created the political turmoil that exists to this day. They are the danger to our democracy by conducting their war against it …
Trump Assassination Attempt Investigation: One year following the assassination attempt of President Trump, the American people still do not have answers to all of their questions about the breakdown of security at the Butler campaign rally and detailed information about the would-be assassin, Thomas Crooks. I had expected the FBI to be more forthcoming with the public and provide my office with the records we have been seeking for months. I am issuing the subpoena to help prompt transparency and I look forward to Director Patel’s full cooperation.
Biden’s Declining Mental and Physical Health: My investigation into President Biden’s cognitive decline is focusing on his cabinet members – who would have been responsible for implementing the 25th amendment. As we conduct interviews, we’ll be creating a historical record of what actually happened in Biden’s White House. It’s going to take some time, but Americans deserve the truth.
I guess inflation and the growing impacts of Donald Trump’s tariff wars slipped his mind.
As for Dr. Wucher, he is not an epidemiologist or virologist but rather an integrative dentist who, for $199, will gladly send you on a journey to explore “The Puzzle of Health.”
Like many so-called experts, Dr. Wucher doesn’t really treat COVID-19 patients. Instead, he offers advice:
So how about trying some regeneration, as in “Regeneration Made Simple – Part 1“:
Why is it that when perfectly healthy indigenous tribe members move to the big cities, they almost immediately begin to have chronic health issues – often starting with dental problems? Dr. Martin Wucher, a German integrative dentist based out of Namibia, grew up in the savanna and has dedicated his life to understanding and addressing the root causality of chronic disease.
Martin uses nutrition, lifestyle, targeted supplementation, and advanced forms of frequency medicine to help his patients become self-healing again, rather than rely solely on chemical or invasive protocols. In this 1-hr Zoom interview, Martin outlines natural methods that have transformed the lives of patients who were on the verge of giving up hope.
As for Dr. Byram Bridle, here is what close to 90 colleagues at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, had to say:
Dr. Byram Bridle has stated on multiple platforms and numerous outlets that COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe. These statements are contrary to overwhelming scientific evidence. The S protein generated by or incorporated into vaccines is an effective immunogen but does not alter DNA, does not induce infertility or pass through breast milk, and is not a toxin. Adverse vaccine effects do occur but at a similar or lower frequency than for routine vaccines. In the face of this terrible pandemic, widespread vaccination is the best way out of the devastation we currently face. Many people have limited understanding of the complexities of immunization against infectious agents, and rely on scientists in epidemiology and immunology to share their knowledge and experience, especially at times such as these when fear is high. Misinformation spread by individuals such as Dr. Bridle targets uncertainty.
[Emphasis added.]
Some of Dr. Bridle’s critics question his lack of expertise:
Dr. Byram Bridle is an associate professor at the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph, in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Bridle is not a medical doctor, nor is he a veterinarian. Dr. Bridle holds a PhD in immunology; he is a bench scientist, who conducts research on animals … Dr. Bridle endorsed far-right politician Derek Sloan for Premier, supported and spoke at the ‘Freedom Convoy’, and was a special guest of far-right German politician Christine Anderson, whose views were called ‘vile’ by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
They note: “Bridle has served as an ‘expert witness’ in legal cases opposing COVID-19 public health interventions.”
They cite this testimony:
‘[238] The court accepts that Dr. Bridle is an immunologist and vaccinologist by training and that he has expert knowledge in these fields, in particular regarding the theory and science behind vaccines. However, for the reasons below, the court does not accept that Dr. Bridle is qualified to give opinion evidence with respect to the safety and efficacy of the Covid-19 vaccine for children. … [240] Dr. Bridle acknowledged that he is not a medical doctor. He has never vaccinated a child, he has never treated a child or an adult suffering from a reaction to a vaccine, nor has he ever treated a child or an adult who is suffering from an infectious disease. …
He did not seem to appreciate or accept the serious risks associated with contracting the Covid infection, including death, nor did he seem to appreciate the risks and effects of contracting Covid multiple times, including the risk of developing long Covid syndrome, of which he appeared to be oblivious. …
[249] When asked by the court if he accepted that the Covid vaccine prevents serious illness and death, regardless of the shorter duration of immunity, Dr. Bridle would not acknowledge that receiving the vaccine prevented severe or serious illness and death. …
[250] Respectfully, this is so far removed from the mainstream and widely accepted views of the Canadian and international medical and scientific community that the court cannot accept Dr. Bridle’s evidence on the Covid vaccine as reliable. …
[254] Dr. Bridle also testified that he is working on his own Covid vaccine, for which he has received government funding and is currently in the pre-clinical stage. The court was concerned that it is possible in Dr. Bridle’s interest, consciously or not, to advance views that discredit the existing mRNA technology used in Covid vaccines because he is working on a competing technology.’
— B.C.J.B. v. E.-R.R.R., 2022 ONCJ 500 (CanLII)
[Emphasis added.]
Then there is Dr. Steven Hatfill, who has a remarkably checkered past. I will skip past the many years Dr. Hatfill was a prime suspect in the anthrax attacks to, as Wikipedia puts it, the controversy about his resume. Wikipedia explains:
[He claimed that he served] as a medic with the Selous Scouts and membership in the Rhodesian SAS, but according to one journalist the regimental association of the latter is ‘adamant Hatfill never belonged to the unit’… Hatfill submitted his Ph.D. thesis for examination to Rhodes University in January 1995, but it failed in November. Hatfill later claimed to have completed a Ph.D. degree in ‘molecular cell biology’ at Rhodes, as well as a post-doctoral fellowship (1994–95) at the University of Oxford in England and three master’s degrees (in microbial genetics, medical biochemistry, and experimental pathology, respectively). Some of these credentials have been seriously questioned or disputed. During a later investigation, officials at Rhodes maintained that their institution had never awarded him a Ph.D. …
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Hatfill was interviewed on several right-wing media outlets including Stephen Bannon’s War Room … He opposed the U.S. response to the pandemic, particularly the exclusion of hydroxychloroquine for early treatment of COVID-19, making unproven claims that the low fatality rate experienced by some nations is the result of their early use of the drug.
For the moment, the FDA’s warning about hydroxychloroquine still exists on its website:
FDA is concerned that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are being used inappropriately to treat non-hospitalized patients for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) or to prevent that disease … These medicines have a number of side effects, including serious heart rhythm problems that can be life-threatening … Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are FDA-approved to treat or prevent malaria. Hydroxychloroquine is also FDA-approved to treat autoimmune conditions such as chronic discoid lupus erythematosus, systemic lupus erythematosus in adults, and rheumatoid arthritis … [But] have not been shown to be safe and effective for treating or preventing COVID-19.
Jonathan Cohn is a senior national correspondent for The Bulwark. He recently wrote about RFK’s mRNA decision.
Cohn was also struck by the evidence Kennedy offered:
The link is revealing, though more for what it says about Kennedy than what it says about mRNA technology … And what you’ll find on the website is exactly the sort of stuff you’d expect to find on a site with no gatekeepers. The authors listed on the mRNA page include a scientist who has touted the benefits of hydroxychloroquine and another who has claimed the COVID vaccine creates toxins in the body. According to the listing, they and two collaborators originally compiled the citations for Toxic Shock, an independently published 2024 book that claims that mRNA vaccines ‘are the real menace to our country’s long-term wellbeing’ … It also includes a chapter from author Naomi Wolf, who famously claimed (among many other things) that COVID vaccines were causing miscarriage.
Cohn is referring to some of Naomi Wolf’s posts on X (formerly Twitter):
Wolf obviously has a different set of public health priorities than those working to treat COVID patients or trying to make sure the latest version of the vaccine targets the changing variants:
And clearly the trauma of interacting with the vaccinated has lasted more years than you might have imagined:
Cohn continues: “To say these views are out of step with the scientific consensus would be an understatement. Here, for example, is what top researchers have actually found when it comes to the claim on vaccines and miscarriage.”
Cohn refers to the May 2025 Yale Medical School study “COVID-19 Vaccines Not Linked to Miscarriage”:
In the current study, Sheth’s team investigated whether the COVID-19 vaccine was associated with a greater risk of miscarriage by analyzing electronic health record data from VSD … There was no association between being vaccinated and having a miscarriage, the researchers found. Furthermore, the number of vaccine doses, type of vaccine (Moderna, Pfizer, etc.), and the timing of the vaccination were not linked to miscarriage. ‘This is a rigorously conducted study that continues to show that the COVID-19 vaccines are safe during pregnancy,’ says Sheth. ‘For women who are early in pregnancy or those who are thinking about getting pregnant, given the risks of COVID-19 disease, they should feel encouraged to go ahead and get vaccinated if they are not already.’
[Emphasis added.]
Meanwhile, the threats posed by respiratory viruses increase. On August 8, 2025, The New York Times reported:
The bird flu virus that has beset dairy farms since early last year may be spreading through the air in so-called milking parlors and through contaminated wastewater, as well as from milking equipment, scientists have found.
The Department of Agriculture has said that the virus spreads primarily from milking equipment or is carried by dairy workers and vehicles traveling between farms.
But in the new study, scientists found live virus in the air of milking facilities, suggesting that cows and farmworkers might have become infected by inhaling the pathogen. The virus may also spread by water used to clean cattle barns or contaminated with discarded milk.
[Emphasis added.]
For all the anti-vax propaganda and misinformation that was spewed by folks like Robert F. Kennedy and Sen. Ron Johnson, the world has to come to terms with the overwhelming reality of respiratory disease. At least for now, the CDC has not buried this truth:
Meanwhile, you would never know it if you listen to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but COVID is on the rise:
As Tulane Associate Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Oncology Michael Hoerger, Ph.D., M.S.C.R., warns us, COVID is surging in several places:
Sadly, out of government, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did great damage to public confidence in the very mRNA vaccines that ultimately reduced hospitalizations and saved so many lives. But now with political power, he is determined to transform that out-of-control bias into policies that will deny millions of us access to these life-saving vaccines.
I am no doctor, but if you ask me, do yourself a favor and get vaccinated while you still can. And stay safe.
