Pharma shares hit as Trump picks RFK Jr to lead health department
Choice of vaccine critic knocks some of world’s biggest drugmakers including Moderna, AstraZeneca and GSK
Investors in pharmaceutical companies are selling off stock after Donald Trump nominated the anti-vaccine activist Robert F Kennedy Jr to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services.
RFK Jr has embraced numerous health-related conspiracy theories, and is one of the most persistent and influential vaccine deniers in the US.
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