The anti-vaccine activist could oversee the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health.

Days before the election, Kennedy posted on social media that a Trump White House would advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from the public water supply, which goes against public health recommendations yet jibes with a large number of people who question the safety of fluoridating water.

One compares Kennedy being considered to “having somebody who doesn’t believe in gravity being the head of NASA.”

Although Trump signaled in the runup to the election that he planned to let the vaccine skeptic “go wild” on health, food and medicine, Kennedy’s official selection for the nation’s top health post sent shockwaves through the public health world,

Kennedy Jr. suggested that the Covid-19 virus was engineered to give Chinese and Ashkenazi Jewish people some sort of immunity.