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Kennedy goes west

The day after the White House made another big push to change how Americans get vaccines, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was in California pushing to change addiction treatment — and blaming the prior administration for how it previously handled it. My colleague Chelsea Cirruzzo was there with him.