Family Calls for Health Minister Kennedy's Resignation Over Vaccine Stance

USA's Health Minister Robert F Kennedy's vaccine-skeptical policy arouses emotions and creates chaos for the country's infection control. Now, members of his prominent family are urging him to resign.

» Published: September 06 2025 at 21:26

Family Calls for Health Minister Kennedy's Resignation Over Vaccine Stance
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The brother, former Democratic congressman Joe Kennedy, describes Robert F Kennedy as "a threat to every American's health and well-being" in a statement.

"None of us will escape the pain he inflicts."

The Minister of Health's sister Kerry Kennedy says in turn that medical decisions "belong in the hands of trained and licensed professionals, not incompetent and misguided leaders", writes AP.

The call for resignation comes after Kennedy this week in an interrogation in the Senate defended his attempts to limit the possibility of covid vaccination and the decision to fire the leadership of the infectious disease control agency CDC.

President Donald Trump has since defended Kennedy by saying that he "means well", but at the same time questioned the Minister of Health's line on covid vaccine.

I think you have to be very careful when you say that some people do not need to be vaccinated, said Trump and added that the vaccines "work" and are not "controversial" on Friday.

Robert F Kennedy has long been a prominent vaccine skeptic and as minister he has continued to question research and experts.

It is not the first time that family members and relatives criticize him. Voices have been raised against both his presidential campaign last year and his nomination as Minister of Health.

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