Michael R. Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor, intends to launch a broadside on Tuesday against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., using his opening remarks at a public health conference to warn that installing Mr. Kennedy as health secretary would be “beyond dangerous,” and tantamount to “medical malpractice on a mass scale.”Mr. Bloomberg, in remarks prepared for delivery at the event, the two-day Bloomberg American Health Summit in Washington, called on Senate Republicans to persuade President-elect Donald J. Trump to “rethink” his choice of Mr. Kennedy for health secretary.
If Mr. Trump cannot be persuaded, he said, the Senate has “a duty to our whole country, but especially to our children,” to vote against confirming him.
“The casualties of Kennedy’s war on science and medicine — Kennedy’s casualties — will pile up, and the body count would be unbearably high” if Mr. Kennedy is confirmed, Mr. Bloomberg said in his prepared remarks.
“We can’t allow Kennedy or Trump — or anyone else — to wage that war, which would bring unimaginable suffering to the American people.”Mr. Bloomberg has spent billions of dollars promoting public health, both through his charity, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and through donations to the School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, which now bears his name.
The school and the charity hosted the health summit, with the theme of “advancing public health in uncertain political times.”
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New York, Washington