{"id":17490,"date":"2024-11-29T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17490"},"modified":"2024-11-29T15:24:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T15:24:38","slug":"dr-dave-weldon-trumps-cdc-pick-wasnt-on-anyones-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17490","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Dave Weldon, Trump\u2019s CDC Pick, Wasn\u2019t on Anyone\u2019s Radar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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But over the years, the former congressman\u2019s views have often aligned with those of his potential boss, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. \u2014 particularly on vaccine safety.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Dave Weldon, a former Republican congressman who is President-elect Donald J. Trump\u2019s pick to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been off the political stage for more than 15 years.<\/p>\n

Now running a private medical practice in Malabar, Fla., Mr. Weldon was hardly regarded as a leading candidate to run the federal agency, a $9 billion behemoth with a staff of more than 13,000 that has become a locus of conservative rage.<\/p>\n

Yet over the years his views have aligned in many ways with those of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mr. Trump\u2019s choice for health and human services secretary, and Dr. Weldon\u2019s potential boss. The two have maintained a 25-year relationship.<\/p>\n

Like Mr. Kennedy, Dr. Weldon, 71, has claimed that some children may develop autism when vaccinated against measles because of genetics or other factors, despite dozens of robust studies that thoroughly disproved the claim.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Reached by phone on Tuesday, he declined to say whether he still held those beliefs and added that he could not yet comment on \u201canything of substance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Weldon said that in his time in the House of Representatives, he worked with Mr. Kennedy \u201cto get the mercury out of the childhood vaccines.\u201d Still, he described himself as a supporter of vaccination.<\/p>\n

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But over the years, the former congressman\u2019s views have often aligned with those of his potential boss, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. \u2014 particularly on vaccine safety.Dr. Dave Weldon, a former Republican congressman who is President-elect Donald J. Trump\u2019s pick to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been off the political stage for more than 15 years.Now running a private medical practice in Malabar, Fla., Mr. Weldon was hardly regarded as a leading candidate to run the federal agency, a $9 billion behemoth with a staff of more than 13,000 that has become a locus of conservative rage.Yet over the years his views have aligned in many ways with those of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mr. Trump\u2019s choice for health and human services secretary, and Dr. Weldon\u2019s potential boss. The two have maintained a 25-year relationship.Like Mr. Kennedy, Dr. Weldon, 71, has claimed that some children may develop autism when vaccinated against measles because of genetics or other factors, despite dozens of robust studies that thoroughly disproved the claim.Reached by phone on Tuesday, he declined to say whether he still held those beliefs and added that he could not yet comment on \u201canything of substance.\u201dDr. Weldon said that in his time in the House of Representatives, he worked with Mr. Kennedy \u201cto get the mercury out of the childhood vaccines.\u201d Still, he described himself as a supporter of vaccination.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17492,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17493,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490\/revisions\/17493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}