‘Do you believe that germs cause disease?’ — the questions health leaders want senators to ask RFK Jr. Kennedy, President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services, will face two Senate committee hearings next week.
Health leaders want senators to grill Robert F Kennedy Jr. about whether or not he believes that germs cause disease and challenge him over some of the “harmful” conspiracy theories he has peddled.
“Someone needs to pin him down on whether or not he believes that germs cause disease,” Dave Chokshi, a practicing primary care physician and former New York City health commissioner, told the outlet.
On Wednesday, he will be questioned by the Senate Committee on Finance, which oversees HHS, and on Thursday, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions will get to probe the former Democrat.
“The ‘healing farms’ for substance abusers cost $10,000 a month [per person],” Sherry Glied, now dean of the NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, told Politico.
