CDC nominee to face questions about measles outbreak, vaccine policy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : Defend Public Health, a recently formed group of public health researchers, health-care workers and advocates, is urging senators to reject Weldon's nomination.
39% : Trump plucked Weldon from political retirement for the role, selecting a social conservative best known in public health circles for promoting the debunked link between vaccines and autism.
30% : In announcing his pick, Trump called Weldon a "respected conservative leader on fiscal and social issues" who held health agencies accountable.
28% : Days after a 6-year-old unvaccinated girl died, in the measles outbreak, Kennedy did not explicitly urge vaccination, said Gregg Gonsalves, an infectious diseases expert at Yale University and member of Defend Public Health.
27% : The group pointed to promises Kennedy made to senators that he would not promote anti-vaccine policy when he assumed the leadership of HHS.

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