Although Trump signaled in the runup to the election that he planned to let the vaccine skeptic “go wild” on health, food and medicine, Kennedy’s official selection for the nation’s top health post sent shockwaves through the public health world,

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday announced his intention to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer and former independent presidential candidate, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

The president-elect says the long-standing vaccine sceptic will "make America healthy again", in his first speech since election night.