Former CDC Director Redfield Urges RFK Jr. to Boost Vaccine Research

Dr. Robert Redfield and Del Bigtree, founder of Informed Consent Action Network, discussed Kennedy’s vaccine research plans at a Feb. 19 health care event.

Dr. Robert Redfield, then director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies on Capitol Hill on July 2, 2020. Saul Loeb/Pool/Getty Images

Dr. Robert Redfield, who served as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during President Donald Trump’s first term, called for more vaccine research in his address at a health care event hosted by Politico on Feb. 19.

“I’m in clinical practice two half days a week right now, and largely doing COVID and long COVID, and I have a number of patients that have very serious long-term consequences from the mRNA vaccines,” Redfield said during Politico’s First 100 Days: Health Care event.