President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that he will nominate vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Health and Human Services Department.
川普周四表示，他将提名疫苗怀疑论者小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪担任卫生与公众服务部部长。

If the Senate approves Kennedy, the former independent presidential candidate will lead a sprawling department responsible for the huge Medicare and Medicaid health coverage programs, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
如果参议院批准肯尼迪，这位前独立总统候选人将领导一个庞大的部门，负责庞大的医疗保险和医疗补助医疗保险计划、食品和药物管理局、美国国立卫生研究院以及疾病控制和预防中心。

Kennedy, 70, is the son of Robert F. Kennedy, the late U.S. attorney general and Democratic senator from New York who was assassinated in 1968 by a gunman in Los Angeles as he ran for president. He is the nephew of former President John Kennedy who was assassinated in 1963.
70 岁的肯尼迪是已故美国司法部长、纽约民主党参议员罗伯特·F·肯尼迪 (Robert F. Kennedy) 的儿子，后者于 1968 年竞选总统时在洛杉矶被枪手暗杀。他是1963年被暗杀的前总统约翰·肯尼迪的侄子。

“I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social site Thursday.
“我很高兴宣布小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪担任美国卫生与公众服务部部长，”川普周四在其“真相社交”网站上发帖写道。

“For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health,” Trump wrote.
川普写道：“长期以来，美国人一直被工业食品联合体和制药公司压垮，这些公司在公共卫生方面进行欺骗、错误信息和虚假信息。”

“The Safety and Health of all Americans is the most important role of any Administration, and HHS will play a big role in helping ensure that everybody will be protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming Health Crisis in this Country.”
“所有美国人的安全和健康是任何政府最重要的作用，HHS 将发挥重要作用，帮助确保每个人都受到保护，免受有害化学品、污染物、农药、药品和食品添加剂的侵害，这些化学品、污染物、农药、药品和食品添加剂导致了这个国家面临着压倒性的健康危机。”

Kennedy told NBC News in a recent interview that Trump has said he wants Kennedy to “clean up corruption” at federal health agencies, return those agencies to science-based policies and “make America healthy again.” Kennedy said that “there are entire departments, like the nutrition department at the FDA, that have to go.”
肯尼迪在最近的一次采访中告诉美国全国广播公司新闻，川普曾表示，他希望肯尼迪“清理联邦卫生机构的腐败”，让这些机构回归基于科学的政策，并“让美国再次健康”。肯尼迪说，“整个部门，比如 FDA 的营养部门，都必须撤销。”

Stock prices of vaccine makers fell earlier Thursday on reports that Trump would tap Kennedy for the HHS post.
周四早些时候，有报道称川普将任命肯尼迪担任美国卫生与公众服务部一职，疫苗制造商的股价下跌。

Kennedy last year suggested that the Covid-19 virus, which CDC played a major role in combatting, was engineered to “attack Caucasians and Black people,” and to be less likely to harm “Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese” people.
肯尼迪去年表示，疾病预防控制中心在抗击新冠病毒方面发挥了重要作用，该病毒的设计初衷是“攻击白人和黑人”，而不太可能伤害“德系犹太人和中国人”。

Kennedy outraged many of his siblings by endorsing Trump in August after abandoning his long-short presidential candidacy.
肯尼迪在放弃长期的总统候选人资格后于八月支持川普，激怒了他的许多兄弟姐妹。

Trump’s selection of Kennedy came a day after the Republican president-elect tapped Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general.
川普选择肯尼迪是在这位共和党候任总统任命佛罗里达州众议员马特·盖茨担任司法部长的第二天。

Gaetz’s selection immediately sparked controversy due in large part to the fact that the Department of Justice, which he would lead as AG, previously investigated him for possible sex trafficking of a 17-year-old girl. Gaetz resigned from Congress effective Thursday, removing him from the jurisdiction of the House Ethics Committee, but a number of Republican senators have called on that panel to release a report of its investigation of the former lawmaker.
盖茨被选立即引发了争议，很大程度上是因为司法部此前曾因涉嫌贩卖一名 17 岁女孩而对他进行过调查。盖茨已从国会辞职，周四生效，使他脱离了众议院道德委员会的管辖范围，但一些共和党参议员呼吁该委员会发布对这位前议员的调查报告。

Kennedy last week reportedly suggested he would fire 600 NIH workers and replace them.
据报道，肯尼迪上周建议他将解雇 600 名 NIH 工作人员并更换他们。

His “Make America Healthy” website has been seeking suggestions from the public for more than 4,000 appointee posts across the federal government to be filled by Trump.
他的“让美国健康”网站一直在征求公众建议如何填补联邦政府 4000 多个任命职位。