The official nominated by President Donald Trump to be the top deputy to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expressed support for vaccines during his confirmation hearing in Washington on Sept. 15.
Chris Klomp, the current chief counselor at the Department of Health and Human Services, said at one point that the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine “is the single most effective public health tool that we have against measles.”
He declined to offer similar promotion of the influenza vaccine, which is estimated to have lower effectiveness.
Klomp also dismissed the idea that the MMR vaccine is linked to autism disorder.
“I do not believe, based on the preponderance of evidence I have seen, that MMR vaccines cause autism,” Klomp said. …