The new NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey found adults divided over the health secretary but with a bare majority viewing him favorably.

Among the eight people Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced would make up his new group of outside vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are an emergency physician who posted Islamophobic commentary on social media and two doctors who were paid to provide expert testimony in trials against a vaccine maker.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made several false claims about vaccines in a Thursday appearance on Fox News.

Rob Lucero says he wants to fill a leadership vacuum that he says both the Democratic and Republican parties are experiencing.

Kennedy announced he had fired all 17 members of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee and would replace them with new members.

Offit has served on committees that advise the federal government on the use of vaccines. Earlier this week, Kennedy ignited controversy for dismissing all the members of one advising the CDC.

Bill Nye ghosted RFK Jr. after they were introduced by a mutual friend, when Nye determined that RFK Jr. wasn't fit to hold his government job.

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