Former Congressman Dave Weldon addresses slightly group in The Villages, Fla.
Brendan Farrington|AP
The White House has truly drawn President Donald Trump’s candidate to guide the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, previousRep Dave Weldon, the Senate’s Health board validated Thursday.
The relocation got here merely hours previous to the earlier Florida legislator, a vaccination film critic, was set to appear previous to the UNITED STATE Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions for a verification listening to.
Axios initially reported the selection onThursday Robert F. Kennedy, that leads the Department of Health and Human Services, said Weldon had not been ready for the obligation, Axios reported. HHS takes care of the CDC and all varied different authorities well being and wellness corporations.
But Weldon’s sights straighten very intently with Kennedy, an notorious vaccination doubter. Weldon, 71, has truly lengthy doubted the safety of particular injections, promoting the false claim connecting injections to autism. The CDC will apparently re-examine that internet hyperlink beneath Kennedy regardless of years of research exposing it.
Weldon supplied in Congress for 14 years, from 1995 to 2009.
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