To the editor: Now that Donald Trump might be president and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be a strong influence on health policy in America, right here is that this physician’s nightmare.
Authorities coverage will discourage new vaccines and impede the administration of present ones. Legal responsibility waivers for vaccine growth might be ended. Authorities propaganda will persuade People to concern vaccines.
With much less vaccination, youngsters will die of measles and different ailments. And the Trump administration will management the event and launch of well being knowledge, so the general public gained’t learn of those disastrous insurance policies.
That’s how intolerant democracies resembling Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, which Trump admires, function.
Richard W. Merel, M.D., Hermosa Seashore
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To the editor: It’s good to see Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state Legislature assembly to fortify and defend the state in opposition to the incoming Trump administration’s anticipated onslaught on a spread of points.
However I’m not seeing concern over our state’s public well being infrastructure, particularly if Kennedy performs a key function within the White Home.
I’m pondering of vaccine availability, sufficient provides of non-public protecting tools for well being employees within the occasion of a requirement surge resembling one other pandemic, hospital beds and emergency room staffing, meals and restaurant inspectors, reasonably priced medicine and different issues. Let’s hope that’s a part of California’s plan.
Steve Tarzynski, M.D., Santa Monica
