WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey issued the following press release:

Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security, and Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director under President Joe Biden, published an op-ed in Newsweek titled, "America Is Getting Sicker, Not Healthier, Under Trump and RFK Jr."

Senator Markey and Dr. Walensky detail the damage that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has done to Massachusetts' and the country's health infrastructure as he has sown seeds of distrust in medicine and science, particularly vaccines, and taken a sledgehammer to life-saving research at the National Ins...