Fox News Doctor Absolutely Destroys RFK Jr’s Anti-Vax Stance — Bashes Florida’s Removal of Vaccine Mandate as ‘Disturbing Beyond Belief’
Jennifer Bowers BahneySep 4th, 2025, 6:51 pm
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Fox News Senior Medical Correspondent Dr. Marc Siegel pushed back on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s testimony on mandated vaccines — particularly when it comes to children — and whether they should be a personal choice, as is now becoming the case in Florida.
Dr. Siegel spoke Thursday with Dan Abrams — founder of Mediaite and host of The Dan Abrams Show on SiriusXM’s POTUS channel — about Kennedy’s Capitol Hill testimony, where he was grilled by both Democrats and even some Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee.
Kennedy was asked about casting doubt on the efficacy of the Covid and measles vaccines, limiting vaccine availability, and canceling funding for mRNA shot development.
“The [Covid] vaccines are safe, they’re effective, they’re extremely important during pregnancy and early childhood…Pregnancy is a high-risk group,” Siegel said, expressing frustration that it was not automatically considered high-risk under the new CDC guidelines. The new guidelines recommend the Covid vaccine for people over 65 and those battling chronic diseases.
“There is no debate about the fact that the Covid vaccine was a miracle drug that saved potentially millions of lives,” Abrams said. “So, we sometimes lose the picture of that when we get caught up in, ‘Well, the CDC lied to us about the masks and this —.’ Again, we can have the debate about whether they were overreacting, whether there was dishonesty — Okay. But when it comes to vaccines, we’ve been using these vaccines — putting aside Covid for a moment — for decades! This is crazy, in my view.”
Siegel responded:
I want to tell you what the rubbing point is and why this is so politicized, because people have lost sight of what the purpose of a vaccine is. It is personal choice, but it’s also community protection. And that’s why, of course, we pushed the flu vaccine, because even though the flu vaccine doesn’t prevent spread, it does decrease the number of hospitalizations by over 100,000. That’s easy for people to understand. So you get to make a choice if it.
If it does prevent spread like in measles, there should be no choice! But if enough people opt out, you’re going to get more and more virus around and more and more people end up in the hospital. The way this has been sold and politicized is to lose sight of the fact that there’s an issue of choice. That beyond an issue of choice, there’s an issue of community protection.
Siegel claimed it was imperative to protect kindergartners against emerging infections, saying it was “absurd and disturbing beyond belief what’s happening in Florida.”
Florida’s Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, recently moved to end all vaccine mandates for schoolchildren.
“The whole thing is a circus, except people are getting hurt. I don’t understand the whole situation,” Siegel said. |
