With boost from RFK Jr. and Tucker Carlson, two chronic disease entrepreneurs vault into Trump’s orbit Calley and Casey Means push anti-corporate message to ‘Make America Healthy Again’

With boost from RFK Jr. and Tucker Carlson, two chronic disease entrepreneurs vault into Trump’s orbit Calley and Casey Means push anti-corporate message to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ https://www.statnews.com/2024/10/07/calley-means-casey-means-conservative-voices-of-chronic-disease-crisis/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9OQedJ4cJ3aEKM7bxZf2WEjy3DMJd02p0X8srrY5lrG0_ocOvmA9y1LiqpBLws2qvBDio7pPcdS_IHyqU_QTYEpzRYfA&_hsmi=335661306&utm_content=335661306&utm_source=hs_email With the election of Donald Trump to the White House — and his decision to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services — the MAHA movement has taken center stage. That, however, doesn’t mean that all its adherents fit under a neat political umbrella. In fact, the MAHA (short for “Make America Healthy Again”) movement has become a home for the disaffected of various stripes, whether that’s a middle school teacher who is skeptical about the ingredients in vaccines or a retired IT professional and nurse who worries about vaccine hesitancy but still has some lingering misgivings over the U.S. response to the Covid pandemic. For those following the movement, mistrust is often the starting point, and the pandemic was a tipping point. MAHA’s leaders focus on a disparate array of concerns, including some widely shared worries about chemicals in food, and more fringe beliefs disputed by scientists about vaccines. STAT’s Eric Boodman and Isa Cueto have the story on the Americans within the MAHA-verse. In the MAHA-verse, ex-Bernie die-hards and conservative moms find a political home Eric Boodman Isabella Cueto By Eric Boodman and Isabella Cueto https://www.statnews.com/2024/11/26/maha-movement-health-care-policy-different-concerns-shared-disaffection/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9i3-3-I5TJz8cV_qvZEG-c2_sr88uOnL201MsJ2KD3as54MhKfogDXGIo1Ufx4O_urJn98e_-kbiD6hMfuT5TJQv0jEw&_hsmi=335661306&utm_content=335661306&utm_source=hs_email