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Kennedy faces anti-vax anger over hantavirus treatment legal protections

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CitrixNews Staff
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Kennedy faces anti-vax anger over hantavirus treatment legal protections

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushed back on criticism from some Make America Healthy Again activists after he extended liability protections for drugmakers working to develop treatments for the Andes hantavirus strain.  HHS late last week extended legal protections through July 18 to manufacturers and distributors of the experimental antiviral drug favipiravir as a potential treatment.   Kennedy signed a PREP Act declaration,…

Originally reported by The Hill