Bill Cassidy: A Profile in Cowardice

More than 10 years ago Republican Congress named Bill Casidi attended by cutting tape In the High School of WestDale in the parish of East Baton -Ruzh, Louisiana. The celebration was to honor the reconstruction of three medical centers of local schools, which was made possible by the federal grant from the US Health and Human Services Office, which was provided with the help of Casid. On the cutting of the Cassida tape, she told how he helped to make hepatitis B and influenza vaccinations at East Baton Rouge school.

The head of a local non -profit organization, medical centers in schools, gladly told about the enthusiasm for the vaccines, saying: “I remember how Bill (Cassidid), calling me from the Senate Louisiana floor when he was in the state legislature, asked me when I knew Cassidi worked at public hospitals in Louisiana for 30 years, and he knew well about the power of immunization. His push to school vaccinations for HPV was motivated by his own clinical experience and, in particular, near the death of a woman under his care Due to the hepatic insufficiency associated with this prevented viral hepatitis.

Casidi is now a senior senator from Louisiana and chairman of the Committee on Mighty Senate, Education, Labor, Pensions and pensions. It is more influential than when -either, and presumably has not forgotten the importance of vaccinations. Therefore, when Donald Trump highlighted the long-standing anti-Vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a secretary of health and human services earlier this year, Kesididi was in perfect position to push back.

We all know what he did instead. Having expressed the reservations about the nomination, the Cassidi turned around and made housing from Kennedy, providing “Main commitments“In the vaccine policy, which Casidia claimed, he satisfied his problems. He then proposed the crucial voting” RFK Jr. “by installing the vaccine for the full approval of the Senate.

Now June. Each Kennedy’s promise made by Senator Casidia was broken. Advisory Committee on Disease Control and Prevention has been cleaned and its members replaced With the anti-Vaxi marked with a clear conflict of interest. Meanwhile, the thickets of the speakers, the guilty of Prasad and Marty Makari in the US administration and the US, as well as Jay Bhattacheria at the US National Institute of Health in one -sidedly changed American Vaccination Policy flies in the face Scientific evidence and clinical reality of the disease in these populations.

Like Catherine Wu u Atlantic said to a We are now entering. With outbreaks of measles and whooping across the country, this is the moment of gasoline on the fire. As assumed my colleagues in Stanford, Probably the measles will return For endomedness in the US, and in case RFK Jr. and its “mini-I” cover the vaccine for other diseases, we risk other infections that become more common.

We all knew who RFK is a junior. Senator Casidi did so. And yet he voted for him. Now when asked about what’s going on,
Cassidi runs away from journalists Having chased him down the corridors of the Senate, and since January he refused to interview this topic.

Uncle RFK Jr. once wrote a book called Profiles in courageconsisting of short biographies of American senators who made their party do the right and affected consequences. The JFK book was popular – chickens and integrity among politicians seemed well sold in 1956. But the coward is the fury in the next century.

If anyone would like to write this, I would suggest Bill Casida to become the first in the section Profiles in cowardice. He can run from journalists but cannot hide from history. How does the whole life be so easy to vaccination that the King of Anti-Vaxers? On the eve of his vote and after all that happened in these short months, Bill cannot even rally to fight even for a second. Does he even think about those children in the East Baton -Ruzh? The young woman who almost lost her life on HPV? Of course, he does it – but he has decided that should put his own political future in front of millions of children in this country, which will now suffer the consequences of his cowardice.

This is a special kind of cravenstince. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkovskis will always express concern about bad things and then vote with their party. But Bill Casidia
a certain life of service What he has now destroyed: in addition to creating vaccination programs in his state, he served poor for more than 20 years and did not insure in Count K. Long Medicine and created an improvised hospital in an abandoned loaf of K-Mart after the Hurricane Katrina. Now it will be linked to RFK -younger forever.

Cassidi opened the door and allowed RFK -younger. Now he’s mercilessly looks like rfk “goes wild“About health. A rather fast drop for good physician. Unfortunately, we have not yet got into the rock-day into this new anti-Vaxx.