"The attacks that Casey is unqualified because she left the medical system completely miss the point," the health secretary said.

The nomination of Casey Means to be U.S. Surgeon General has received blistering criticism from RFK Jr.'s VP Nicole Shanahan. Means' lack of an active medical license is also falling under scrutiny. According to Newsweek,

Casey Means, a prominent nutrition advocate in the Make America Healthy Again movement, has been described as insufficiently critical of vaccines.