RFK Jr. Downplays Benefits of Vaccines in Testy Senate Hearing
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US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was challenged by Republican Senator Bill Cassidy in a congressional hearing after incorrectly claiming that a study showed vaccines didn’t help slash the US mortality rate last century.
The clash was a return to Kennedy’s prior rhetoric after he had largely expressed support for vaccinations in a series of seven hearings on Capitol Hill.