STAT+: Memo said to describe biotech industry meeting calls RFK Jr. a ‘direct threat to public health’
A memo that purports to summarize a meeting held by members of a leading biotech trade group suggests deep concern about health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s stance on vaccines, and describes him as a “direct threat to public health.”
The four-page document purportedly details topics of conversation at an April 3 meeting of a vaccine policy committee of the trade group BIO, in which attendees discussed anxieties about Kennedy’s positions on vaccines and strategies to engage with more conservative influencers.
The document also includes an apparent quote from someone in attendance: “it is time to go to The Hill and lobby that it is time for RFK Jr to go.”
Allison DeAngelis and Elaine Chen
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