Purported biotech industry memo calls RFK Jr. a ‘direct threat to public health’

Allison DeAngelis is the East Coast biotech and enterprise capital reporter at STAT, reporting the place scientific concepts and cash meet. She can also be co-host of the weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud. You may attain Allison on Sign at AllisonDeAngelis.01.

A memo that purports to summarize a gathering held by members of a number one biotech commerce group suggests deep concern about well being secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s stance on vaccines, and describes him as a “direct risk to public well being.”

The four-page doc purportedly particulars subjects of dialog at an April 3 assembly of a vaccine coverage committee of the commerce group BIO, through which attendees mentioned anxieties about Kennedy’s positions on vaccines and techniques to interact with extra conservative influencers.

The doc additionally consists of an obvious quote from somebody in attendance: “it’s time to go to The Hill and foyer that it’s time for RFK Jr to go.”