‘To heal our children, a president must see the possible and lead our nation to act,’ Dr. Robert Redfield wrote.
Dr. Robert Redfield, who served as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is supporting former President Donald Trump and his new ally Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plan to “Make America Healthy Again.”
The endorsement from Redfield, whom Kennedy had criticized for years, appears in a Sept. 24 editorial he wrote for Newsweek magazine under the headline, “Donald Trump Has a Plan to Make America’s Children Healthy Again. It’s a Good One.”
Referring to the pair, Redfield wrote: “I support their noble effort to heal our children.”
Redfield pointed out that, before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in 2020, the “Trump Administration set a course to address chronic disease, funding earlier interventions to curb the growing crisis.”
“Five years later, this issue is exactly where it needs to be: at the center of the presidential debate, now in a unique partnership,” he said, referring to Trump’s alliance with Kennedy.
“To heal our children, a president must see the possible and lead our nation to act,” Redfield wrote. “After more than 40 years in the public health arena, it might surprise