WASHINGTON — Hundreds of public health advocates gathered on the National Mall on Wednesday to challenge key public health issues, including Medicaid cuts, vaccinations and reproductive rights.
The rally marked the end of the American Public Health Association’s annual D.C. meeting, with attendees ranging from physicians to workers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Several rally speakers called for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be fired, criticizing the Make America Healthy Again movement Jr. leads.
“One of Jr.’s first acts was to put out the MAHA report on children’s health,” said Bob Morris, the Founder of the Science Accountability Institute. Well, if he truly cared about children’s health, he’d worry more about bullets in their heads than the coloring in their skittles.”
