Shares of large vaccine manufacturers fell this Thursday in electronic trading after the close of the Wall Street stock market after the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, named anti-vaccine activist Robert Kennedy Jr. as the next Secretary of Health .
At the close of the New York center, Moderna’s shares fell 6%, Pfizer’s 3% and Novavax’s 7%, while the stock market values of BioNTech, a pharmaceutical company that helped Pfizer develop its Covid vaccine -19, also fell 7%.
The future Secretary of Health is known for the conspiracy theories that he began to spread during the pandemic about vaccines and Covid-19, such as that this virus aimed to attack Caucasians and blacks and that the most immune people are the Chinese. and the Ashkenazi Jews.
Kennedy Jr. has also linked mass school shootings to antidepressants like Prozac, has denounced that Democrats receive much more money from pharmaceutical companies than Republicans, and is convinced that vaccines cause autism.
In addition, he is the founder of the anti-vaccine organization Children’s Health Defense, and is in favor of eliminating fluoride from tap water, which has been a common ingredient in domestic water for more than eighty years in the United States.
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Trump promised today on his social network Truth Social that the Secretary of Health will play an important role in ensuring that the population is protected “from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming crisis.” of health” in the country.
Kennedy Jr., in his view, will ensure that those agencies return to compliance with the mandates of science “to end the chronic disease epidemic and make America great and healthy again.”
The son of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, both assassinated in the 1960s, is in Trump’s opinion “a fantastic guy” with good knowledge about pesticides and the environment. .
Before giving his support to Trump, Kennedy Jr. began his unsuccessful run for the presidency on the Democratic side.
In April of last year he presented himself as the alternative to the president, Joe Biden, and announced his aspirations to be that party’s candidate, but in October he noted that he was leaving that formation to run as an independent, something that he finally ended up suspending.
With information from EFE
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