Sen. Rand Paul SHUTS DOWN Ex-CDC Official Trashing RFK Jr. With a Single Statement
The man on the right is the CDC’s former immunization chief.
He quit his job over RFK Jr. — and now he’s on a media tour attacking him.
But Rand Paul just put him in his place with three simple sentences.
And it all started when the “scientist” on the right made a hysterical warning about the very first vaccine given to infants.
Meet Dr. Demetre Daskalakis.
He was the CDC’s director of immunizations until the Trump administration, with RFK Jr. leading HHS, fired CDC Director Susan Monarez after disagreements with Kennedy over vaccine policy.
Dr. Daskalakis immediately resigned. In his fiery resignation… pic.twitter.com/TICL92IvWN
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For context, the hepatitis B vaccine was moved to the childhood schedule in 1991 after it failed to receive uptake among the targeted risk group, specifically, intravenous drug users and those who participate in risky sex.
Children engage in neither, and the hepatitis B vaccine… pic.twitter.com/qlRzj3sTpm
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After Dr. Demetre Daskalakis’s stark warning about the hepatitis B shot on ABC, Senator @RandPaul — a physician himself — fired back with a sharp rebuttal that cut him down in just a few sentences. pic.twitter.com/JLOhx85itl
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Senator Paul’s rebuke received more than 1.1M views in just the first 8 hours and overwhelming support from his followers. As one X user bluntly stated:
“RIP Hep B vaccine for babies. It should have NEVER taken this long.”https://t.co/RIvioGMlY4
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