RFK Jr. Addresses Iowa Rally Calling for Covid Vaccine Removal and Highlighting MAHA Movement
At a rally in Clive, Iowa, a group calling themselves Make America Healthy Again gathered with Republican candidates to criticize big agriculture and demand the removal of the Covid-19 vaccine from the market.
Speakers included Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, who repeated disputed statements about the hepatitis B vaccine, Michael Boes, chief MAHA officer at Steak ’n Shake, who described the MAHA movement as a catalyst for a major shift, and Zen Honeycutt, founder of Moms Across America, who urged ending liability shields for pesticide and pharmaceutical firms.
The event was organized to support Zach Lahn, a farmer who is running for Iowa governor, but much of the program highlighted the appearance of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vocal supporter of Lahn and the MAHA cause.
A video montage was shown before Kennedy took the stage, reinforcing the rally’s themes of fraud, vaccine skepticism, and broader health policy concerns.
This writeup was produced by pharmadog from original reporting by STAT.
Original headline: “STAT+: Kennedy’s closing arguments for the 2026 midterms: Fraud, vaccines, and MAHA”
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