Republican senator denounces Trumpâs âcrazy, stupidâ claims about MMR vaccine safety
Outgoing Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy, a medical doctor, voted to confirm anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr as health secretary before speaking out The Republican senator Bill Cassidy â a medical doctor who voted to confirm anti-vaccine activist Robert F Kennedy as federal health secretary in early 2025 â on Sunday denounced Donald Trumpâs âcrazy, stupidâ claims about the safety of the combined MMR vaccine for undermining faith in immunization. When Trump recently ordered changes to the recommended childhood vaccination schedule, with Kennedy by his side, the president called for two shots of the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to be scrapped in favor of two doses of three separate vaccines, claiming that the MMR shots are âsort of like a nuclear weaponâ that could be âquite lethalâ. Cassidy, whose re-election bid ended in defeat to a Trump-backed challenger in a Republican primary in Louisiana, has been on the presidentâs enemies list since 2021, when the senator voted to convict him of âincitement of insurrectionâ in connection with the US Capitol attack carried out by Trump supporters toward the end of his first presidency. Asked about Trumpâs
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