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This doctor-senator who backed RFK Jr. now faces a fight for his job — and his legacy
Sen. Cassidy's support for RFK Jr. led to vaccine policy shifts and a drop to 73% in newborn hepatitis B vaccination, triggering a Trump-backed primary challenge.
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Doctor-senator who backed RFK Jr. fights for his job, and his legacy
A year after Sen. Bill Cassidy warily cast the vote that ensured Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation, the Louisiana Republican’s life’s work — in medicine and in politics — is unraveling.
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This Doctor-Senator Who Backed RFK Jr. Now Faces a Fight for His Job — And His Legacy
BATON ROUGE, La. — The ambitious liver doctor would go just about anywhere in his home state to give people the hepatitis B vaccine. Bill Cassidy offered jabs to thousands of inmates at Louisiana’s maximum-security prison in the early 2000s. A decade before that, he set up vaccine clinics in middle schools, a model hailed nationally as a success. “He got that whole generation immunized in East Baton Rouge,” said Holley Galland, a retired doctor …
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