US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr was damning in his assessment of the US government’s response to Covid at the weekend, as he did the rounds of news studios.
“Senators may want to make a little speech and then shut me down, but they can’t deny the fact… we did worse in Covid than any country in the world,” he told Fox News. “We have 4.2% of the world’s population and we had 20% of the world’s Covid deaths. We literally are the worst team in the league. I’ve been brought in as the new manager and my job is to shake up the organisation, to fire the people who were responsible.”
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Does Trump deserve the Nobel?
Perhaps Kennedy should have a word with the politician who, just two days earlier, declared that the US’s development and distribution of Covid vaccines had been such a success that Donald Trump should receive the Nobel prize in medicine?
Asked at a Senate hearing by Republican Bill Cassidy whether he agreed that “the president deserves a Nobel prize for Operation Warp Speed”, that same politician replied, “Absolutely, senator,” adding that the scheme was “genius” because it “got the vaccine to market that was perfectly matched to the virus at that time, when it was badly needed because there was low natural immunity and people were getting very badly injured by Covid”.
That politician? Er, US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.
