Retiring Guy's Digest: GET ME REWRITE: You can place the blame on "the massive disruption of the public health vaccine system" at the cold feet of spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D.

Thursday, June 19, 2025

GET ME REWRITE: You can place the blame on "the massive disruption of the public health vaccine system" at the cold feet of spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D.

Headline: The 74, 6/17/2025

From Amanda Geduld's interview with Dr. Paul Offit :

He’s been breaking promises right from the beginning. I think Cassidy put out a list of 10 or so things [Kennedy] promised he wouldn’t do. And he proceeded to do it.

I’m reading: He has committed that he would work within current vaccine approval on safety monitoring systems. That he hasn’t done.

He’ll maintain the CDC Advisory Committee Immunization Practices recommendation without changes, and he hasn’t done that either.

He’s already, for example, changed the recommendation on pregnancy, changed the routine recommendation for young children to get COVID vaccines. And now Cassidy also put out a tweet saying that for those of you who think [Kennedy] may just put vaccine skeptics on [the committee], he’s not gonna do that. Then he proceeds to do that.

What Cassidy does is he draws a line. He says, “Don’t cross this line.” Then Kennedy crosses the line, and he doesn’t do anything — just draws another line. I think he is weak and ineffectual. And I think his legacy will be the harm that’s caused to children and adults in this country because of this massive disruption of the public health vaccine system. I think that will be Sen. Cassidy’s legacy. [emphasis added]

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