Former Congressman Dave Weldon addresses a little group in The Villages, Fla.
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The White House has actually drawn President Donald Trump’s candidate to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, previousRep Dave Weldon, the Senate’s Health board validated Thursday.
The relocation came simply hours prior to the previous Florida legislator, a vaccination movie critic, was set to appear prior to the UNITED STATE Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions for a verification hearing.
Axios initially reported the choice onThursday Robert F. Kennedy, that leads the Department of Health and Human Services, stated Weldon had not been prepared for the duty, Axios reported. HHS looks after the CDC and all various other government health and wellness companies.
But Weldon’s sights straighten very closely with Kennedy, an infamous vaccination doubter. Weldon, 71, has actually long doubted the security of specific injections, advertising the false claim connecting injections to autism. The CDC will apparently re-examine that web link under Kennedy in spite of years of study exposing it.
Weldon offered in Congress for 14 years, from 1995 to 2009.
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