{"id":5039,"date":"2025-07-02T23:02:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/biotech-industry-meeting-memo-vaccines-rfk-jr-health-secretary\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T23:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:02:23","slug":"biotech-industry-meeting-memo-vaccines-rfk-jr-health-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/biotech-industry-meeting-memo-vaccines-rfk-jr-health-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: Memo said to describe biotech industry meeting calls RFK Jr. a \u2018direct threat to public health\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

STAT+: Memo said to describe biotech industry meeting calls RFK Jr. a \u2018direct threat to public health\u2019
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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.\u2019s stance on vaccines, and describes him as a \u201cdirect threat to public health.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2019s positions on vaccines and strategies to engage with more conservative influencers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The document also includes an apparent quote from someone in attendance: \u201cit is time to go to The Hill and lobby that it is time for RFK Jr to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

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STAT+: Memo said to describe biotech industry meeting calls RFK Jr. a \u2018direct threat to public health\u2019 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.\u2019s stance on vaccines, and describes him as a \u201cdirect threat to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2194,2154,2155,2180,2149,2152,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-5039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech","category-biotechnology","category-pharmaceuticals","category-public-health","category-rfk-jr","category-stat","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}