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With CDC in free fall, RFK Jr. faces bipartisan rebuke at Senate hearing
Kennedy calls CDC “the most corrupt agency at HHS and maybe the government.”

Rainer Storb: Six decades of bone marrow transplant breakthroughs
“His CV has more pages than almost any of you have papers.”