Trump's RFK appointment sends stock market into meltdown - as his full plan to 'make America healthy again' is revealed

Donald Trump's assignment of Robert F Kennedy Junior arsenic his astir elder wellness main sent shares of large cause companies crashing today.

Moderna banal tumbled 7 percent pursuing the announcement of RFK Jr arsenic caput of wellness and quality services, arsenic Pfizer's fell 3 percent and Novavax saw its shares driblet 5 percent.  

The thought of 1 of the country's foremost vaccine skeptics heading up wellness argumentation has galore wellness experts successful authorities nervous, but helium has earned praise from the near and close for his plans to ace down connected harmful nutrient ingredients that aren't allowed overseas and stress workout and steadfast eating implicit taking pills.

As HHS boss, Mr Kennedy would beryllium successful complaint of America's 3 healthcare agencies — the CDC, FDA and the NIH —and would person the powerfulness to bring successful galore of those changes and more.

Mr Kennedy's ‘Make America Healthy Again’ tapped into the vexation astatine the information that the US spends much connected healthcare than immoderate different state yet is among the sickest, with a little beingness expectancy than adjacent nations similar the UK, Canada and Australia.

He claims this contradiction is being driven by firm interests putting profits implicit Americans’ wellness erstwhile it comes to vaccines, medications and nutrient and drink.

Mr Kennedy has promised to purge swathes of the workforce astatine the country's wellness agencies and stem the revolving doorway of unit leaving to lobby for nutrient and cause companies.

This is however helium could overhaul America's wellness if his assignment is confirmed by the Senate, which is present made up of a bulk Republicans: 

Focus connected prevention and non-pharma interventions

Mr Kennedy wants to determination the US from a reactive healthcare strategy that treats radical erstwhile they're sick, to a preventive healthcare strategy that tries to halt diseases emerging successful the archetypal place.

He wants to widen Medicaid and Medicare budgets to screen visits to functional medicine doctors, which purpose to dainty radical done nutrition and workout alternatively than pharmaceuticals.

This taps into the thought promoted by Mr Kennedy that cause companies person an involvement successful keeping idiosyncratic unwell alternatively than improving their health.

He has suggested utilizing psychedelics, earthy milk, ivermectin, sunshine, exercise, 'and thing other that advances quality wellness and can't beryllium patented by Pharma' arsenic ways to dainty immoderate of Americans' wellness woes.

Mr Kennedy has besides repeatedly called connected wellness agencies to clasp alternate therapies, contempt constricted oregon nary grounds supporting them.

Setting retired his views successful his book, The Real Anthony Fauci, Mr Kennedy suggested healthcare prioritized a 'vaccine-only' strategy astatine the commencement of the Covid pandemic, portion overlooking different ways to easiness the outbreak.

Studies showed that 81 percent of Covid deaths were among adults aged 65 years oregon older successful 2020, with the radical astatine higher hazard due to the fact that they person weaker immune systems. In 2023, they made up 90 percent.

He besides supports nutraceuticals, which are products derived from nutrient sources that assertion to supply benefits beyond basal nutrition.

These see dietary supplements similar vitamins and food oil, which galore experts accidental don't person immoderate wellness benefits.

Mr Kennedy has besides suggested devoting fractional the National Institutes of Health (NIH) fund to researching alternate healthcare, and devoting much national backing to determining wherefore radical are getting sick.

Vaccine shake-up

Mr Kennedy has antecedently claimed 'no vaccine is effective' and suggested puerility vaccines could beryllium driving rising autism rates. 

He has besides antecedently floated the thought that schools with vaccine requirements should beryllium defunded. 

He appeared to backmost distant from that stance earlier this week, however, but near the doorway unfastened to making immoderate vaccines non-compulsory.

He told NBC News: 'If vaccines are moving for somebody, I americium not going to instrumentality them away.

'People ought to person a choice, and that prime ought to beryllium informed by the champion information, truthful I'm going to marque definite that information studies and efficacy studies are retired determination and radical tin marque idiosyncratic assumptions whether that merchandise is going to beryllium bully for them.'

In 2019, Mr Kennedy flew to Samoa during the nation's measles outbreak to run for radical not to get the vaccine — saying it would origin autism, a mentation wide debunked.

Dr Paul Offit, a pediatrician successful Philadelphia who antecedently slammed Mr Kennedy arsenic 'remarkably dishonest,' told DailyMail.com it was apt the medication would not beryllium capable to prohibition vaccines.

'I americium assured that the guardrails successful spot astatine the FDA and CDC are long-standing and person served america well,' helium said. 'I americium not definite however overmuch RFK Jnr tin bash to destruct that.'

Many states mandate vaccines for children to let them to be school, including shots against measles, diphtheria, polio, hepatitis and chickenpox.

This is akin to European nations similar Germany and France, which besides mandate vaccinations for attending school, but differs from the UK — wherever each puerility vaccines are voluntary but wide recommended.

Vaccination uptake successful the US is present falling to dangerously debased levels, with experts blaming the detonation successful conspiracy theories.

CDC surveillance shows uptake of the MMR vaccine, which protects against measles, was below the optimum level for the 3rd twelvemonth successful a enactment successful the US — raising the hazard of an outbreak due to the fact that excessively fewer children person immunity.

Surveillance suggests that the uptake of different large puerility vaccines similar polio has besides slipped. 

All the vaccines person been done ample and rigorous objective trials, which person shown the shots are harmless and highly effectual astatine preventing the diseases.

Before the measles vaccine became disposable successful 1963, astir 4 cardinal Americans were sickened and 450 died from the microorganism each year. And earlier the polio vaccine became disposable successful the 1950s, astir 15,000 radical were paralyzed by the microorganism each year.

Crack down connected food 

Mr Kennedy repeatedly hammers the nutrient industry, saying they are 'mass poisoning' the American public.

He has promised to prohibition ultraprocessed nutrient from schools and  provide families 'with harmless nutrient and extremity the chronic illness epidemic plaguing our children.'

He besides wants to prohibition harmful ingredients that are amerciable successful nutrient abroad.

He has lone explicitly mentioned Yellow 5, but akin ingredients that could beryllium nether the microscope are Red 40, Blue 1, titanium dioxide, propylparaben and potassium bromate, which are often added to sweets and baked goods.

The ingredients, which are either banned oregon heavy regulated successful Europe, person been the absorption of caller laws trying to marque nutrient safer.

Mr Kennedy has besides targeted McDonald's gallic fries and criticized Trump's diet.

He has argued against consuming effect oils, though others person pushed backmost connected this. 

Overhauling nutrient argumentation mostly takes years, but successful 2025 the Trump medication volition beryllium charged with penning the adjacent iteration of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, a work that provides recommendations each 5 years for what adults should do. 

Eliminate fluoride successful drinking water 

Mr Kennedy has vowed to region fluoride from the nationalist h2o proviso if elected wrong his archetypal time successful office.

Added to the h2o proviso for three-quarters of Americans, it has been heralded arsenic the top nationalist wellness accomplishment of the 20th period for its quality to forestall cavities and bony decay and prevention families thousands successful dental bills.

But earlier this year, a federal study linked precise precocious levels of the substance — much than are usually successful pat h2o — to a driblet successful IQs of up to 5 points among children.

The squad said they had 'moderate confidence' successful their findings, and added that it conscionable showed an relation but did not beryllium that fluoride was causing little IQ.

Despite this, however, respective cities person already withdrawn fluoride successful effect to the research, and an expert told DailyMail.com that expectant and caller mothers should debar it.

Writing connected X, Mr Kennedy said: 'On January 20, the Trump White House volition counsel each US h2o systems to region fluoride from nationalist water.

'Fluoride is an concern discarded associated with arthritis, bony fractures, bony cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease.'

Some studies person suggested vulnerability to precocious levels of fluoride tin impact the thyroid, a gland successful the beforehand of the cervix that manufactures hormones.

But determination is nary conclusive impervious that fluoride is linked to Alzheimer's and weakened bones. Over-exposure to fluoride has been linked to a information called skeletal fluorosis, however, which leaves children with achy bones and joints. 

The Fluoride Action Network, which spearheads efforts to region fluoride, said online: 'No substance who wins, 1 happening is crystal clear: Fluoridation is simply a location of cards.

'The subject shows it. The nationalist has caught on. Fluoride's days are numbered.'

Three cities held votes implicit adding fluoride to their drinking h2o yesterday — Hillsboro and Lebanon, successful Oregon, and Sarcoxie, successful Missouri — which each voted to person it removed from their drinking water.

Responding to the allegations, Dr Offit said: 'Fluoride has been good tested. It intelligibly and definitively decreases cavities, and is not associated with immoderate wide grounds of the chronic diseases mentioned.'

The American Dental Association is simply a beardown advocator of adding fluoride to water, with the CDC estimating it has saved much than $6.5billion successful dental bills.

A spokesperson said: 'The cardinal takeaway for the nationalist and nationalist wellness community... is that [studies and rulings] bash not reason with immoderate certainty that fluoridated h2o is injurious to nationalist health.'

The punctuation was fixed successful effect to a bombshell ruling in California, which suggested that fluoride whitethorn airs a 'hazard' successful drinking water. 

Healthcare savings accounts

Mr Kennedy has besides said helium wants to grow healthcare savings accounts.

Under the existent scheme, these accounts — called HSAs — which let radical to deposit pre-tax income which tin past beryllium utilized tax-free to wage disconnected aesculapian bills.

They are presently typically lone disposable to those enrolled connected high-deductible wellness plans, specified arsenic employer-sponsored plans oregon bronze plans.

But Mr Kennedy wants to marque them much accessible for Americans and supply greater flexibility for however the wealth is utilized — which whitethorn see besides utilizing it to entree functional medicine doctors.

About 37million Americans already person a HSA, estimates suggest — with the accounts having a combined worth successful excess of $123billion.

End corrupt healthcare agencies

Should helium beryllium approved by the Senate to instrumentality connected the role, Mr Kennedy has promised to 'clean up corruption' successful the wellness agencies.

Accepting the nomination, helium said: 'I look guardant to moving with the much than 80,000 employees astatine HHS to escaped the agencies from the smothering unreality of firm seizure truthful they tin prosecute their ngo to marque Americans erstwhile again the healthiest radical connected Earth.'

He added: 'Together we volition cleanable up corruption, halt the revolving doorway betwixt manufacture and government, and instrumentality our wellness agencies to their affluent contented of gold-standard, evidence-based science.'

Mr Kennedy points retired that much than 75 percent of the FDA's cause reappraisal fund is provided by the pharmaceutical industry, which helium says is simply a wide struggle of interest. Estimates besides suggest that astir 60 percent of FDA unit person antecedently worked for large pharma.

Mr Kennedy antecedently told the Washington Post: 'The information that Democratic sachems are debating whether their enactment should enactment nationalist wellness arsenic a governmental strategy alternatively than embracing it arsenic a halfway worth is grounds to however retired of interaction and morally bankrupt the enactment has become.

'Healthy nutrient and clean, uncorrupted Government agencies ought not to beryllium partisan issues.'

He is expected to curb the power of industry-funded probe groups successful the country and to thin connected Trump to prohibition thousands of chemicals that studies suggest are harmful to health.