A top doctor who served as the White House’s COVID-19 response coordinator forcefully pushed back after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched into an unhinged rant about Covid-19, vaccines, and scientific research. “There was a lot of information that Secretary Kennedy said that just isn’t true. It’s just factually not true,” said Jha, who was part of the Covid-19 response under President Joe Biden. While Kennedy insisted Trump bore no responsibility for the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jha offered a starkly different account. Dr. Ashish Jha slapped down Kennedy's assertion that Fauci, not Trump, ran the show during Covid.