Biden’s top health official advises Robert F. Kennedy Jr. [Video]

WASHINGTON –

Thousands of people were dying from COVID-19 every day. Americans were still being ordered to stay-at-home or mask in public. Millions of people were eager to line up for jabs of the newly-released COVID-19 vaccines.

That’s the scene the nation’s top health official, Xavier Becerra, wants Americans to remember as he readies to leave the office, possibly to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy is a vehement critic of the vaccine that government officials — Becerra included — promoted to combat the deadly virus.

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“We essentially lost as many Americans in one day from COVID-19 as we’d lose with 10 jumbo jets going down, every day. That’s where we were,” …