RFK Jr. Challenges Assertion Vaccines Have Saved Hundreds of Millions of Lives

RFK Jr. Challenges Assertion Vaccines Have Saved Hundreds of Millions of Lives

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sept. 29 challenged the common assertion that vaccines against diseases such as measles and polio have prevented hundreds of millions of deaths. When Kennedy appeared before the Senate Finance Committee earlier in September, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) displayed a chart titled “How Vaccines Helped All But Eradicate Diseases” and credited vaccines with lowering morbidity for measles and six other diseas…

RFK Threatens a Century of Medical Progress - OtherWords

The antivaxxer-in-chief may lead us back to an era of long-eradicated diseases.