There can be no mistake: Donald Trump has just been elected with a mandate for change. In announcing that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can go wild on health, he has targeted healthcare in America as a prime candidate for major change. That mandate may be a force that revitalizes and restructures the US healthcare system, or it could be Camelot on a curve where the realities of change are minimal. Here are five areas that can show how RFK Jr. decides between the two:
The Vaccine Question
First, Kennedy, a noted vaccine skeptic, would do a much-needed service by determining and elucidating the risks and efficacies of all vaccines, especially those for COVID-19 and influenza. In a recent post, he stated, “Bottom line: I’m not going to take anyone’s vaccines away from them. I just want to be sure every American knows the safety profile, the risk profile, and the efficacy of each vaccine. That’s it.”
There is no question that vaccines have saved more lives than all other medical treatments combined. However, we are now in a new era of messenger RNA vaccines, yet there are still questions about the extent of their risks and efficacy. It is well known that these vaccines have limited effect on the spread of COVID-19 infection, but they may reduce disease severity in people with healthy immune systems and lower the risk of long COVID. However, for people without functional immune systems, their benefits are unknown. A blue-ribbon government inquiry would be a robust start in filling in the blanks about mRNA vaccines’ benefits and risks.
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