Former White House Kovid -19 response coordinator Ashish Jha, who served under former President Biden, on Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Criticized Kennedy Junior, to suggest that he could identify children suffering from mitochondrial challenges, which can face them in public settings.
“Forgive me but what?” Jha Written in a post on social platform XAnswer a clip from an incident in Texas.
“Our Health Secretary says that he sees children at airports and can tell from their face that he has mitochondrial challenges,” Jha continued.
He said, “It is unique, flat-ath, venous goods to people,” he said. “this is not normal.”
Kennedy made a controversial remarks in Texas, where the Gove Greg Abbott (R) signed the “Make America Healthy Again” (Maha) law with HHS Secretary.
The Health Secretary reflected on the children he has confronted since reaching Texas, in the incident, “I know what a healthy child should look like.”
Kennedy said, “I am looking at children because I pass through the airports today, because I am walking on the road, and I see these children who only with mitochondrial challenges, with inflammation,” said Kennedy.
“You can tell from his face, from his body movements, and his lack of social relations,” he continued. “And I know how our children look.”
The comments were completed with some resistance, especially by those who questioned how Kennedy arrived in the diagnosis of children he faced at the airport.
The hill has reached HHS for a reaction.
Kennedy has led the so -called great movement, which aims to resume the country’s efforts on preventive health and overall welfare, which are already ill.
Kennedy has talked about banning artificial food dyes, eliminating soda from supplementary nutrition aid program and adding rising rates of chronic diseases like diabetes and asthma in children to put lifestyle and diet in front of the US health policy.
But Kennedy’s focus on America’s overall health has come at the cost of other priorities, such as both vaccine development and other biomedical research, have seen significant cuts since Kennedy was moved to the agency.
Kennedy is entangledSeparate disputeMore than the resignation at CDC, where the director was excluded on Wednesday. Kennedy isRescuingShakeup in CDC.
