White House withdraws nomination of vaccine-sceptic pick to head health agency

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Cassidy, a physician who chairs the committee that was set to grill Weldon, supported Kennedy's nomination but vowed to "use my authority . . . to rebuff any attempts to remove the public's access to life-saving vaccines without ironclad, causational scientific evidence that can be defended before the mainstream scientific community and before Congress".
44% : At the time of Weldon's nomination in November, Trump said that he would "restore the CDC to its true purpose, and will work to end the Chronic Disease Epidemic, and Make America Healthy Again!" "Americans have lost trust in the CDC and in our Federal Health Authorities, who have engaged in censorship, data manipulation, and misinformation", the president said.
31% : A congressional panel had accused him of having sex with an underage girl, paying women for sex and using illegal drugs in a report released in December.

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