According to multiple reports, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the United States would withhold funding from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, until the global organization regains “public trust.”
“Kennedy accused Gavi of neglecting vaccine safety, making questionable recommendations around Covid-19 vaccines and silencing dissenting views,” POLITICO stated.
“When vaccine safety issues have come before Gavi, Gavi has treated them not as a patient health problem, but as a public relations problem,” RFK Jr. said, according to The New York Times.
RFK Jr. says U.S. won’t donate to global vaccine effort.
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“When the science was inconvenient, Gavi ignored the science,” Kennedy alleged.
“I call on
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