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Maureen Dowd criticizes Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, highlighting their impact on public health and the CDC. She details Kennedy's actions and their consequences, emphasizing the dangers of his misinformation.

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AI Excerpt: Maureen Dowd criticizes Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, highlighting their impact on public health and the CDC. She details Kennedy's actions and their consequences, emphasizing the dangers of his misinformation.
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Parsed Content: Opinion|Vax Quack Lacks Facts Aug. 30, 2025 By Maureen Dowd Opinion Columnist, reporting from Washington I almost died of rubella when I was 3. I was very weak and wouldn’t eat. My mother was frantic. The doctor prescribed mashed lima beans and I pulled through. I still keep lima beans in the freezer. It’s infuriating to see Bobby Kennedy Jr. be so benighted about vaccines, risking the health of all Americans. How can the most powerful country on earth sow the seeds to make people sick again with preventable, even once-eliminated diseases? Between school shooters and R.F.K. Jr., children in America are vulnerable in ways they don’t have to be. Officials are endangering children instead of shielding them. The boneheaded vaccine debate has inflamed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is reeling from mass layoffs and a deadly shooting by an anti-vaxxer at its headquarters. Kennedy tried to fire the director, Susan Monarez, then called in President Trump to fini...

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Simplified: Kennedy tried to fire Susan Monarez after she refused to restrict vaccine access
Other officials quit, leaving the health agency in crisis, just as Winter Is Coming.
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👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Health , Government 🆔 9fc89065-76e9-4964-83bd-3d88d0858e85

Simplified: Officials quit leaving health agency in crisis
The administration put out the most restrictive policy yet on the new Covid vaccines, with more constraints likely, given that Kennedy has stacked the C.D.C. advisory committee with vaccine skeptics a...
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👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Health , Politics 🆔 9fc89066-6f4d-4391-82d2-635bf21bcd96

Simplified: Administration put out restrictive Covid vaccine policy Kennedy stacked CDC committee with vaccine skeptics
When I was growing up, vaccines were the great American success story.
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👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Health , Historical 🆔 9fc89067-7576-4f5e-855b-ccf03482fe9f

Simplified: Vaccines were the great American success story when Maureen Dowd was growing up
It felt momentous when my father picked up my sister and me to go get polio shots.
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👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Health , Personal Experience 🆔 9fc89068-7780-4e2e-8df0-5f64cc5bcf5d

Simplified: It felt momentous when Maureen Dowd's father picked her up to get polio shots
My father helped guard F.D.R. at baseball games and other events.
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👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Historical 🆔 9fc89069-7826-444d-931d-59a12a102a08

Simplified: Maureen Dowd's father helped guard F.D.R.
He saw F.D.R.’s braces, a result of polio, and saw the elaborate lengths the White House went to to camouflage the paralysis in the president’s lower body.
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👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Health , Historical 🆔 9fc8906a-76d1-4f79-8b7b-f549421a417e

Simplified: Maureen Dowd's father saw FDR's braces and White House efforts to camouflage his paralysis
My mother would tell us harrowing tales of how her little sister, Mary, died in 1918 from the Spanish flu.
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👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Health , Historical 🆔 9fc8906b-7e6c-4487-a47c-21ceb472a77c

Simplified: Maureen Dowd's mother's sister Mary died in 1918 from the Spanish flu
This month, Kennedy canceled nearly $500 million in grants and contracts for developing mRNA vaccines, the best chance against a future pandemic.
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👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Health , Politics 🆔 9fc8906c-7e17-4907-9c66-c8eecf394abd

Simplified: Kennedy canceled nearly $500 million in mRNA vaccine grants
That followed the cancellation of a $600 million contract to develop a vaccine for bird flu.
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👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Health , Politics 🆔 9fc8906d-8ff4-46d5-acf4-7b62b9c908a3

Simplified: Cancellation followed of $600 million bird flu vaccine contract
In March, as measles spread in Texas, Kennedy went on Fox News and promoted vitamin A and cod liver oil containing it as “dramatically” effective remedies.
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👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Health , Politics 🆔 9fc8906e-7c7b-458e-bac0-7b3313e5976e

Simplified: Kennedy promoted vitamin A and cod liver oil as measles remedies
Some unvaccinated children took so much vitamin A, they showed signs of liver damage.
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👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Health , Safety 🆔 9fc8906f-817d-4a56-a4be-f0c67a7f19c3

Simplified: Unvaccinated children showed liver damage from too much vitamin A
In 2019, Kennedy went to Samoa and claimed, falsely, that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine had contributed to the deaths of two Samoan infants.
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👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Health , Politics 🆔 9fc89070-8a33-4517-a63f-db5e6b4689c3

Simplified: Kennedy falsely claimed MMR vaccine contributed to Samoan infant deaths
That helped spark a measles outbreak that killed 83 there and infected 500 in Tonga.
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👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Health , Safety 🆔 9fc89071-8cf7-465f-ac52-ef6f52667734

Simplified: Kennedy's claims helped spark measles outbreak killing 83 in Samoa infecting 500 in Tonga
On Wednesday, Kennedy was acting bizarre, saying he can tell as he walks past children if they are dealing with “mitochondrial challenges” or “inflammation.”
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👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Health , Politics 🆔 9fc89072-87a8-4cfb-b01d-2787e7a906e5

Simplified: Kennedy said he can tell if children have mitochondrial challenges or inflammation
He has no medical degree.
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👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🆔 9fc89073-7d4c-4a8e-bf9a-3de3f4481167

Simplified: Robert F Kennedy Jr has no medical degree
Trump got seriously ill from Covid and was saved by the doctors at Walter Reed, who gave him antibody treatments and remdesivir — not the remedy he once suggested people consider: bleach.
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👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Health , Politics 🆔 9fc89074-7131-494e-8776-4bdb900195e1

Simplified: Trump got seriously ill from Covid saved by Walter Reed doctors with antibody treatments and remdesivir
His greatest triumph — and a stirring example of American scientific chops — was Operation Warp Speed, a push to develop a Covid vaccine in less than a year, saving many lives and springing us from ou...
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👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Health , Politics 🆔 9fc89075-6921-464c-9e0f-a6b4bcb3403e

Simplified: Trump's greatest triumph was Operation Warp Speed developing Covid vaccine in less than a year
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Trump told top donors that he wished he could brag about Operation Warp Speed.
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Simplified: Wall Street Journal reported Trump wished he could brag about Operation Warp Speed
Disgusted with Monarez’s dismissal and the way Kennedy places ideology over science, four top officials resigned.
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👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Politics 🆔 9fc89077-54b0-4072-9272-8779184db1f6

Simplified: Four officials resigned disgusted with Monarez's dismissal and Kennedy's ideology over science
One of them, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told The Journal and CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that Kennedy had not even bothered to be brie...
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👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Politics , Health 🆔 9fc89078-58f3-4d5d-a233-37146ddee9e5

Simplified: Demetre Daskalakis said Kennedy had not been briefed by CDC specialists on Covid and measles
Republicans failed miserably in not blocking Kennedy’s nomination.
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👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Politics 🆔 9fc89079-50ff-4f49-9fbb-8b5b6698e583

Simplified: Republicans failed to block Kennedy's nomination
Senator Bill Cassidy, the gastroenterologist who cast the deciding vote on Trump’s snake-oil health secretary, said Wednesday that the chaos at C.D.C. would require oversight by Congress.
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👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Politics , Health 🆔 9fc8907a-445d-41a7-a150-343ef951a840

Simplified: Senator Bill Cassidy said CDC chaos requires congressional oversight
Asked about the C.D.C. meltdown Friday, Trump’s creepy consigliere Stephen Miller told reporters that Kennedy is “a crown jewel of this administration.”
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👤 Maureen Dowd 📋 Opinion Column 🏷️ Politics 🆔 9fc8907b-3882-4043-90fb-260e7a9f90d6

Simplified: Stephen Miller said Kennedy is a crown jewel of the Trump administration