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Nicole Saphier

52:32 - 52:41

“I believe the MMR vaccine is our greatest tool for combating measles.”
Speaker
Nicole Saphier
Timestamp
52:32 – 52:41
Transcript
Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Murkowski): Hearings to examine the nominations of Gerard Klomp, of Utah, to be Deputy Secretary, Timothy Westlake, of Wisconsin, to be Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, and Nicole Saphier, of New Jersey, to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, and to be Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Alaska News
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September 16, 2026

From the transcript

Chairman Cassidy, I cannot speak to what the president has said. You cannot say— as a physician, I can tell you that I do not believe the MMR MMR vaccine to be lethal. I believe the MMR vaccine is our greatest tool for combating measles. That's great, that's great music. And does it cause autism?

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