RFK Jr. Keeps Telling A Flat-Out Lie About Childhood Vaccines — And Doctors Are Sick Of It
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The health and human services secretary has repeatedly claimed children need dozens more vaccines than they actually do.
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After the firing of the CDC’s entire vaccine advisory committee and the ensuing replacement of some of these folks by anti-vaccine advocates, it’s no secret that vaccines in this country are under attack by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others in the Trump administration.
In many, many interviews, Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist, has repeated false claims about vaccines, their side effects and their safety.
During a recent Fox News interview in which Kennedy tried to justify his firing of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee, he further sowed vaccine distrust by repeating inflammatory statements.
In the interview, Kennedy said children only needed 11 vaccines in 1986 and now need “between 69 and 92 vaccines before they’re 18.” He claims this high number of mandatory vaccines (which doctors say is wrong) also includes the multiple doses needed for certain vaccines, such as the polio vaccine, which is a four-series shot — meaning, kids need four shots to be fully protected.
