{"id":15978,"date":"2025-01-04T20:08:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T20:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15978"},"modified":"2025-01-04T20:08:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T20:08:33","slug":"what-rfk-jr-can-and-cant-actually-do-as-trumps-health-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15978","title":{"rendered":"What RFK Jr. can \u2014 and can\u2019t \u2014 actually do as Trump\u2019s health secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;There is a more realistic move Kennedy could take to address his concern about vaccine side effects: He could resuscitate the National Vaccine Program Office, which monitored vaccine safety with particular rigor but was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/23\/health\/covid-vaccine-safety.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shuttered<\/a>&nbsp;under the first Trump presidency.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The US began fluoridating drinking water in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/00056796.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1945<\/a>. An estimated 209 million Americans now drink tap water that contains added fluoride. The intervention is considered a historic public health win: It dramatically&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/health\/treatments\/11195-fluoride\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reduces tooth decay<\/a>&nbsp;in children and also reduces tooth loss in adults.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/health\/385541\/rfk-jr-trump-hhs-vaccines-fluoride\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/health\/385541\/rfk-jr-trump-hhs-vaccines-fluoride<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is a more realistic move Kennedy could take to address his concern about vaccine side effects: He could resuscitate the National Vaccine Program Office, which monitored vaccine safety with particular rigor but was shuttered under the first Trump presidency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The US began fluoridating drinking water in 1945. An estimated 209 million Americans now drink tap water that contains added fluoride. The intervention is considered a historic public health win: It dramatically reduces tooth decay in children and also reduces tooth loss in adults.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/health\/385541\/rfk-jr-trump-hhs-vaccines-fluoride<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,81,80,73,411,2089,170],"class_list":["post-15978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-health","tag-health-system","tag-healthcare","tag-policy","tag-rfk","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15979,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15978\/revisions\/15979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}