Ally of health secretary worked as speechwriter in George W Bush administration and has no training in medicine
The White House has chosen a top aide to health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr to temporarily lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – an appointment that is expected to bolster Kennedy’s goals of remaking federal vaccine policy.
Jim O’Neill, a biotech investor and speechwriter for the health department during the George W Bush administration, as acting director of the agency that oversees vaccine recommendations, a White House official confirmed to the Guardian.
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