Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s personal crusade to “make America healthy again” is picking up steam and taking some startling turns.
Earlier this week, CBS News reports, the director of the National Institutes of Health Jay Bhattacharya said that his office is planning to build a tracking system for autistic people in the US, composed of private medical records, including from pharmacies, insurers, and even fitness trackers. The data would reportedly be used by select researchers as part of a series of studies into autism’s origins, which Kennedy, who oversees NIH as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, has ordered.