NBC NewsDave Weldon, former lawmaker and vaccine critic, faces Senate grilling for CDC director nomination
- Bias Rating
-16% Somewhat Liberal
- Reliability
75% ReliableGood
- Policy Leaning
-4% Center
- Politician Portrayal
-43% Negative
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
60% : Under the Affordable Care Act, insurance companies are required to cover vaccines recommended by ACIP.54% : Unknown to many in the general public, he's well known in anti-vaccine circles.
53% : According to an account in the 2004 book "Evidence of Harm" by journalist David Kirby, Weldon actively intervened to help anti-vaccine researchers Dr. Mark Geier and his son David access the Vaccine Safety Datalink, a CDC-housed dataset containing patient health records.
47% : "Even in 2017, during the first Trump administration, anti-vaccine activists were floating his name as potential for CDC director," Reiss said.
39% : During this time, however, he attracted the attention of anti-vaccine groups due to his criticisms of the CDC and questions about vaccine safety.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.
