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NIH Hospital Board Warns About Vaccine-Injury Clinic Plan

An NIH hospital board has warned that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s proposed vaccine-injury clinic could damage the hospital, Ars Technica reports. Board chair Jack Leslie emphasized the stakes by saying, "Trust is slow to build and quick to lose." The warning concerns potential institutional harm from the proposal. It is not a finding that a new clinic has already caused damage, nor does the announcement itself establish medical conclusions about the patients it might serve. The immediate issue is confidence in a major federal medical institution and how its leaders assess a proposed initiative. Institutional trust is an unusual asset: it takes years to accumulate, cannot be replenished with a software update, and rarely improves because someone creates a new logo for it.

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