RFK responds to doctors pointing out that he is getting children killed by creating more avoidable child death
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RFK Jr. truly loves two things: himself, and children dying avoidable deaths:
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has terminated several multimillion-dollar grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics following the association’s criticisms of the policies of the health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr.
The funding cuts, which affect projects focused on issues including fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and early identification of autism, were first reported by the Washington Post and made without prior notice to the AAP.
In a statement to the Guardian, the AAP’s CEO, Mark Del Monte, said: “AAP learned this week that seven grants to AAP under the US Department of Health and Human Services are being terminated.
“This vital work spanned multiple child health priorities, including reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, mental health, adolescent health, supporting children with birth defects, early identification of autism, and prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, among other topics.”
Del Monte added: “The sudden withdrawal of these funds will directly impact and potentially harm infants, children, youth, and their families in communities across the United States. AAP is exploring all available options, including legal recourse, in response to these actions.”
An HHS spokesperson, Andrew Nixon, told the Washington Post that the grants were terminated because they no longer aligned with departmental priorities.
It was inevitable that the worst person ever to become president was going to populate his cabinet with some of the worst people, but still.
At just 2 weeks old, Feleena Owens was struggling to breathe.
The newborn was coughing so badly, her skin turned a sickly gray-blue color. Her face contorted as she tried to gulp air.
“I think the longest she would stop breathing was about 10, 11 seconds,” said her mother, Sophie Owens, 24.
Soon, Feleena was airlifted to Dallas, about 80 miles away from the small city of Sulphur Springs, Texas, near where the Owenses lived at the time.
“They did tell us that if we didn’t bring her in when we did, there is a high possibility she wouldn’t have seen the next day,” her father, Justin Owens, said.
Feleena had pertussis, or whooping cough. She spent the next several weeks of her life in the neonatal intensive care unit. For more than a week, she was on a ventilator, tubes running in and out of her tiny body, her mother said.
And it’s not just Trump — every member of the Republican Senate conference but one owns this 100%. It would be nice if, say, Maine Democrats could find someone capable of making Susan Collins pay for this.