“The FDA obviously affects what gets approved, but once things are approved, it’s a states’ rights issue,” Dr. Mitchell Katz, president and CEO of NYC Health and Hospitals, said at a press conference the day after the election. Katz was responding to a question about Trump’s potential to affect vaccine access in New York.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent years questioning the federal agencies in charge of vaccine production and safety. Now he is poised to potentially oversee those agencies in a second Trump administration,

Kennedy Jr. and his crusade to take on chronic disease and rein in vaccines has opened the door to more attacks on the pharmaceutical industry. STAT

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime conspiracy theorist and opponent of vaccines, now has the ear of President-elect Donald Trump to promote what he's calling the "Make America Healthy Again"