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Could RFK Jr, Trump’s presumptive health secretary, ban vaccines?

Speaking to NBC News after Trump's victory on November 6, RFK Jr rejected the idea that he's 'anti-vaccine' [File: Carlos Barria/Reuters]

When President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate Robert F Kennedy Jr, one of the nation’s most prominent anti-vaccine movement leaders, to lead the Health and Human Services Department, some social media users warned Americans to update their vaccines.

“IMPORTANT – vaccines could now be BANNED for part of this winter by Trump and RFK Jr, although hopefully any such ban would get halted with an injunction in court,” read a November 15 post on social media app Threads. “GET CAUGHT UP ON VACCINES NOW – just in case.”

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