What Next - Can You Get a COVID Vaccine?
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🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s tenure as HHS Secretary has meant turmoil for the CDC: thousands of employees have either been let go, or are unclear on their employment status; leadership has been stepping down; and there was a shooting at their Atlanta building in August. The result is RFK being yelled at in the Senate, thousands of CDC employees calling for his resignation, and a country less prepared for the next pandemic.
Guest: Apoorva Mandavilli, science and global health reporter at the New York Times.
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| 1:06.1 | Last week, US senators spent three hours in a hearing room grappling with an urgent problem. |
| 1:14.2 | The problem is that even though most Americans trust vaccines feel safer when they and their families have access to them, |
| 1:21.6 | the Trump appointee in charge of distributing America's shots, he has got his doubts. |
| 1:32.9 | Okay. distributing America's shots, he has got his doubts. This hearing will come to order. |
| 1:35.6 | Today we meet to hear from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy. |
| 1:40.8 | This hearing was supposed to be about the president's plan to make America healthy again. |
| 1:45.3 | But for Democrats, Robert F. Kennedy's actions, as Secretary of Health and Human Services, |
| 1:51.4 | changed the agenda. |
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