Healthcare advocates are calling on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign, after he downplayed the risks of COVID-19 by saying that he “used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.” RFK Jr. made the remark in an interview with podcaster Theo Von.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “I’m not scared of a germ. You know, I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.”

Protect Our Care said in response, “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to lay bare why he is the most dangerous, in over his head, ill-suited person ever to lead such an important federal agency that has life-and-death power.” This comes after the Food and Drug Administration last week blocked review of a flu vaccine developed by Moderna using the same mRNA technology that led to the rapid development of vaccines against COVID. The review was blocked by Vinay Prasad, a vaccine skeptic hand-picked by RFK Jr. last May to lead the division of the FDA that oversees vaccine regulation.