Overview

• HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed all members of the CDC’s independent vaccine advisory committee and appointed several known skeptics to the panel.
• An NBC News Decision Desk Poll shows 80% of U.S. adults support using vaccines to prevent disease, including majorities of Democrats, Republicans and independents.
• The survey reports that 51% of respondents view Kennedy favorably, while 48% hold an unfavorable opinion of the health secretary.
• Thirty-five percent of adults cite the food industry as the main cause of chronic health problems, compared with 32% who point to individual lifestyle choices.
• Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda, focusing on ultraprocessed foods and chronic disease prevention, has won bipartisan interest.