{"id":132600,"date":"2024-12-02T21:31:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T14:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132600"},"modified":"2024-12-02T21:31:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T14:31:01","slug":"distrustful-of-health-agencies-these-voters-cheer-trumps-picks-to-run-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132600","title":{"rendered":"Distrustful of Health Agencies, These Voters Cheer Trump\u2019s Picks to Run Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As a nature-loving physical therapist in Boulder, Colo., Colin O\u2019Banion shops at farmers markets, grows organic squash in his backyard and thought he could never vote for Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But during the pandemic, he said, he and his wife became social outcasts when they refused Covid-19 vaccines for themselves and their three sons. Tuning in to alternative health podcasts, he became convinced that the country\u2019s public health establishment was corrupt, and that the only antidote was the upheaval being promised by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as he teamed up with Mr. Trump. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThat\u2019s what brought me on board,\u201d Mr. O\u2019Banion, 49, said, still sounding surprised that he had voted for Mr. Trump, now the president-elect. \u201cWe have a real epidemic going on with metabolic disease, diabetes, obesity. How is it possible we have so much money and the most unhealthy people?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Scientists and public health experts have expressed alarm that Mr. Trump wants to give over the country\u2019s health agencies to people like Mr. Kennedy and Dr. Mehmet Oz, who have spread <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/09\/us\/politics\/medical-freedom-public-health-rfk-trump.html\" title=\"\">misinformation<\/a> about vaccines and Covid treatments and vowed to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wric.com\/news\/rfk-jr-says-entire-departments-at-fda-have-to-go\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">gut<\/a> the government agencies that regulate food and medicines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But to people like Mr. O\u2019Banion, rejecting norms is exactly the point. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Trust in scientists and medical experts has eroded since the pandemic, and voters galvanized by Mr. Kennedy\u2019s pledge to \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d as head of the Department of Health and Human Services said that he had given voice to their frustrations with the whole system \u2014 from vaccines and Covid rules to hospitals and health insurance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/02\/us\/trump-public-health-dr-oz-rfk-jr.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a nature-loving physical therapist in Boulder, Colo., Colin O\u2019Banion shops at farmers markets, grows organic squash in his backyard and thought he could never vote for Donald J. 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