Trump administration unable to create trust in the administration's ability to care for all Americans

Echo opinion letter published in the CapTimes of Madison Wisconsin

Get Ready for a Catastrophic Four Years for Public Health

"The concern is not just about what the Trump 2.0 Administration will do, but also about what it will say," TIME.

Dear Editor: The nomination of (the incompetent❗) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of Health and Human Services is a potential catastrophe for health policy in the U.S.

A person who continues to believe that vaccines cause autism — in the face of scientific consensus that they do not — and that "there are no safe and effective vaccines," represents a danger to all of us.

Literally, children and others will die, like the excess deaths that occurred in "red" states where vaccination and sound public health protective behaviors were rejected during the pandemic. And he’s a worldwide danger. Read about the Samoans who died unnecessarily because of anti-vaccine policy Kennedy espoused. Pathogens don't respect international boundaries.

The author in this conservative publication notes, "(T)he Senate has a job to do. ... The question before the Senate is whether he should run the Department of Health and Human Services, and the answer — even after accounting for some due deference to the president’s preferences — is that he very obviously should not." This view spans political perspectives.

I'd urge any and all who care about public health in our country to call or write your senator now and tell them the danger this particular nomination has, and to reject it. Especially senators who are likely to vote to support nominees, which I’d estimate to be about 50% of Wisconsin’s senators.

From: Gordon Herz  in Madison, Wisconsin