President of Protect Our Care issues one-word statement to US health and human services secretary: ‘Resign’
A prominent healthcare advocacy group is calling for US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr to step down from his post after he downplayed Covid-19 risks by saying: “I’m not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.”
Kennedy, who was appointed secretary of the federal health and human services (HHS) department despite his avowed anti-vaccine activism, made that remark on the 12 February episode of Theo Von’s podcast This Past Weekend.
The president of Protect Our Care, Brad Woodhouse, issued a one-word statement on Kennedy’s comments: “Resign.”
The group added that Kennedy’s comment about cocaine – which as recently as 2023 was involved in nearly 30,000 overdose deaths in the US – “continues to lay bare why he is the most dangerous … person ever to lead such an important federal agency”.
