I fear for the health of my American friends.......Posted By James Brown |
Please read your link, including the final paragraph, and explain to me how this is RFK’s fault. It is actually impossible to tell why CVS is withholding the vaccine. (without a prescription) in these 15 states. Some of the states are blue, some of the states are red. Apparently the vaccine will not be delivered by CVS in Massachusetts at all, prescription or not.Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman
While it's entirely possible Trump could appoint someone else as bad or, if possible, even worse than JFK jr to head the NIH, the amount of damage being inflicted upon the agency, from the undermining of its credibility with the public trust, to its mission to deliver safe and effective vaccinations as well as its life saving research in ultimately delivering optimum healthcare, is such that its board of directing doctors/researchers resigned in protest.
And I have little faith that Senator Cassidy, who is also a physician, will provide essential congressional oversight into JFK jr's ministration within the agency.
That said, a relevant impact of JFK jr actions can be seen in today's action by CVS pharmacies:
"CVS withholding COVID-19 vaccines in 15 states and DC, citing ‘regulatory environment’"
Colorado happens to be one of those states, so someone like Jim Brown won't even be able to get an updated covid booster from a CVS pharmacy unless he goes through the trouble of first getting a prescription for one from his doctor:
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5477209-cvs-covid-vaccines-hhs-fda-rfk-jr/
i’m not particularly interested in defending RFK. (He does have some good policies on discouraging junk food I think.) But I personally disagree with his vaccine hesitancy. In any case, I don’t see how you can blame him for CVS’s actions without citing some regulatory policy that is causing this CVS course of action in just a selected and kinda random subset of the states.
Don’t worry about me, though, we don’t use CVS.