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  • Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to testify before a Senate panel today.

  • Democrats are expected to grill him about his far-reaching changes to federal health agencies and Kennedy's approach to vaccines.

  • But NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin reports one senator who will be watched just as closely today is Louisiana Republican Bill Cassidy.

  • Cassidy is a physician.

  • He chairs the health committee which oversees HHS, and he believes strongly in vaccines.

  • Kennedy won Cassidy's vote by promising he wouldn't change that CDC vaccine advisory panel.

  • Obviously, Kennedy broke that promise.

  • He fired everyone on that committee and replaced them.

  • NPR's Selena Simmons Duffin reporting.

  • The pharmaceutical maker Pfizer is responding to President Trump's call to make public more evidence about the safety and effectiveness of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccines.

  • NPR's Rob Stein reports.

  • Pfizer chairman and CEO, Albert Borla.

  • released a statement defending the evidence supporting the COVID vaccines.