Senate members were appointed to question Wildon, Trump’s choice to head the Disease Control Center
Dr. Dave Wildon, the former Republican actor and President Trump’s choice of leadership and prevention centers, will appear before the Senate Health Committee on Thursday, the first time that the agency’s director has undergone the confirmation process.
Dr. Wildon, 71, may be the least well -known of men nominated to lead the main agencies of the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services. But he is the person who is closely consistent with Robert F. Kennedy Junior, the new Minister of Health in the country.
Dr. Wildon, like Mr. Kennedy, has long asked about the safety of some vaccines, and the two maintained a 25 -year relationship. The Minister of Health was martyred with criticism of Dr. Wildon for the Center for Disease Control to his side.
Dr. Wildon served in Congress for 14 years, from 1995 to 2009. His distinguished legislative achievement was Weldon, which Health agencies are prohibited from discrimination Against hospitals or health insurance plans that choose not to provide or pay miscarriage.
He also argued that refraining from having sex is the most effective way to reduce sexually transmitted infections. The cases have increased in recent years and began to go out in 2023 only.
The hearing of Dr. Wildon is taking place amid the large measles outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico, which has hit more than 250 people who claimed life; The influenza season, which led to a record number of hospitals; The possibility of bird influenza.
He will likely face difficult questions about his perspectives about the measles vaccine, which has been interrogated over and over, and at the center of control over the diseases itself, which he criticized sharply for not doing enough to prove that the vaccines are safe.
While he was in Congress, Dr. Wildon pushed to Transfer the vaccine safety office Away from CDC Control, saying that the agency has conflicts of interests because it also purchases and enhances vaccines.
In an interview with the New York Times in late November, Dr. Wildon said he worked “to remove mercury from childhood vaccines”, but he described himself as a supporter of vaccination.
He said that each of his adult children is fully immunized. As a doctor in coastal Florida, he describes thousands of doses of influenza and other vaccines for his patients.
“I have been described as a vaccine. I believe in vaccination.”
The members of the Senate Committee in the field of health, education, work and pensions for Mr. Kennedy – who later approved him – as well as Dr. Jayanta Bhatertharia and Dr. Marti Macari, also questioned the concerned candidates for the leadership of the National Institutes of Health and Food and Drug Administration.
(The hearing of Dr. Mohamed Oz, the candidate for the Department of Medical Care and Medical Services, is scheduled to be scheduled to be scheduled.)
Regardless of a handful of difficult questions from the committee chairman, Senator Bill Cassidy, the Republic of Louisiana, has largely fell on party lines. Dr. Wildon’s session is not expected to be different.
Cassidy, a doctor, may pressure Dr. Wildon to use the hepatitis B vaccine, which is managed for children at birth.
Dr. Wildon, like Mr. Kennedy, questioned the need to fortify children against hepatitis B, and described it as an adult sexual contact disease.