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The Brian Lehrer Show

Public Health Under RFK Jr.

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Jessica Malaty Rivera talks about the government's response to the ongoing measles outbreaks and why a vaccine advisory committee meeting on planning next year's flu shot was cancelled.

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0:00.0

It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone, and thank you, Michael and Bridget.

0:15.8

And folks, keep those sustaining membership coming. One of the things we're doing on this show during Trump's first 100 days is a Health and Climate Tuesdays section of the show.

0:28.0

This builds on and expands what many of you know we've been doing over the last couple of years,

0:32.1

the climate story of the week that we have been doing on Tuesdays the last two years.

0:37.1

Our thinking right now is that there are so many headlines coming from the new administration

0:41.9

that are pretty monumental on a daily basis that health and climate ones risk getting lost

0:47.8

in the shuffle.

0:48.6

And we're always interested in these, so we're creating a lane.

0:52.0

Today, for example, the big headlines are about the tariffs that suddenly

0:56.4

went into effect today, right? And Trump's suddenly pausing all military aid to Ukraine. Big

1:02.1

consequential things that are new and rightly grab top line attention. So maybe lost as a result

1:10.1

are the things we'll talk about to start the show today.

1:13.2

RFK Jr.'s new endorsement, some people are calling it a mixed message, but to my eye,

1:19.6

in a way that matters, it is mostly an endorsement of the measles vaccine for kids amid the

1:25.7

expanding outbreak. Two cases have been reported in New York City now, a long

1:30.0

way from the West Texas epicenter. And parents need to hear what RFK wrote. So we're bumping it up

1:38.1

to our lead. Also, the cancellation of the usual meeting that would be taking place around now

1:43.4

to plan for next year's flu vaccine,

1:46.6

and also a high-ranking deputy to Kennedy, I bet you haven't heard this one yet, a Trump appointee,

1:52.6

Trump loyalist, who quit yesterday after just two weeks on the job over objections to how

1:59.3

RFK is running the department.

2:02.2

And on the climate track, we'll discuss one big specific assault on climate policy that is

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