Although Trump signaled in the runup to the election that he planned to let the vaccine skeptic “go wild” on health, food and medicine, Kennedy’s official selection for the nation’s top health post sent shockwaves through the public health world,

The president-elect says the long-standing vaccine sceptic will "make America healthy again", in his first speech since election night.

During his presidential campaign, Kennedy developed a national profile for his criticism of the Covid vaccines and childhood immunizations.