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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Katie Hawkinson

‘Actively dangerous’: 15,000 doctors sign letter begging Senate to reject RFK Jr for health secretary

More than 15,000 doctors signed a letter begging the US Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation, calling the health secretary nominee ‘actively dangerous' - (Getty Images)

More than 15,000 doctors have signed a letter imploring the US Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation for secretary of health and human services.

The letter, organized by the advocacy group Committee to Protect Health Care, calls President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Kennedy “a slap in the face to every health care professional who has spent their lives working to protect patients from preventable illness and death.”

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