Dr. Sanjay Gupta: ‘Somebody Said to Me Today, I Can‘t Think of Any Single Individual Who Would Be More Damaging to Public Health than RFK’

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GUPTA: “Well, you know, it’s not often that the entire medical and public health community is going to be in lockstep on something, but they’re pretty close on this in terms of their significant concerns, horror even. Somebody said to me today, I can’t think of any single individual who would be more damaging to public health than RFK. Keep in mind, I think, if the reporting is correct and the job is the Secretary of Health and Human Services, that comprises the CDC. You know, we just got through this pandemic, comprises the FDA, comprises the NIH. He’s talked about wanting to basically strip funding for infectious diseases overall. Again, just coming out of this pandemic with concerns about other viruses and things out there. The challenge I think is that at the same time, there is this whole idea that we’re not a very healthy country. We spend $4.5 trillion on healthcare and we have some of the worst outcomes in the developed world.”