The idea of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an outspoken vaccine skeptic who has also made baseless claims about fluoride and other scientific issues, serving as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services has the medical community panicking over the potential implications. President-elect Donald Trump has said that he would let Kennedy “go wild on health” and on “the food and “the medicines" by giving Kennedy control of federal health policy.

“Somebody said to me today, ‘I can’t think of any single individual who would be more damaging to public health than RFK,'" Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a neurosurgeon and CNN’s chief medical correspondent, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer Thursday.

Gupta said that the medical community was near-unanimous in its "horror" over Trump's flirtation with picking Kennedy to lead HHS, and was particularly troubled over his stance on vaccines. “He talked about COVID specifically being bioengineered to attack certain demographics of populations, but when it comes to vaccines and him talking about the connection between vaccines and autism, I think that probably gets the most attention,” he........

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