President Trump demands drugmakers 'justify their success' with COVID vaccines
Public Health,COVID-19 Vaccine Divide Series,COVID-19 Misinformation,Vaccines,Robert F Kennedy Jr,Vaccine Skepticism
President Donald Trump called on drug companies to "justify their success" in combatting the COVID-19 virus, demanding the immediate release of data on the matter while the CDC is "being ripped apart over this question."
Trump's remarks in a Sept. 1 post on Truth Social follow his firing last week of CDC director Susan Monarez just one month into her tenure after a disagreement she had over vaccine policy with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic. Jim O'Neill, a top deputy of Kennedy, was later named acting CDC director.
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