Health minister says U.S. health institutions no longer trustworthy partners
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Health minister Marjorie Michel says she cannot trust American health institutions as reliable partners for Canada's future, citing misinformation as a major concern.
Canada is used to looking to the United States as a source of health and scientific information, but the federal health minister said that is no longer the case.
“I cannot trust them as a reliable partner, no,” said Health Minister Marjorie Michel in a year-end interview.
Michel added that the U.S. “can be reliable on some stuff,” but pointed to vaccines as an area in which Canada must go its own way.
U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration have made significant changes to health institutions over the last year.
The secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is an anti-vaccine activist. Under his watch, the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website was changed in late
November to contradict the well-established scientific conclusion that vaccines do not cause autism.
That change prompted some former CDC officials to say information the agency posts about vaccine safety cannot be trusted.
An advisory panel chosen by Kennedy also recently recommended ending routine hepatitis B vaccines for newborns, and the panel is considering changes to the rest of the childhood vaccine schedule.
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