RFK Lied About Vaccines—Now Kids Are Paying the Price
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🗓️ 11 May 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:20.0 | Hello, everybody. It's Jonathan Cohn, senior writer at the bulwark. Today, we are going to talk about |
| 0:26.3 | vaccines and vaccine safety, and we're going to do it with a bona fide expert in the field. |
| 0:32.8 | So we are recording this in the middle of what is shaping up as the worst measles outbreak in decades. |
| 0:39.3 | In Texas, which is the epicenter of the outbreak at last count, they had recorded 702 cases, which is probably an undercount. |
| 0:48.3 | 92 of them ended up in the hospital and two have died, both of them children, the first known child deaths from measles |
| 0:56.4 | since 2003. Nearly every case of the measles we're seeing is from somebody who was not vaccinated, |
| 1:03.6 | which is something that is happening, we're seeing increasingly in the United States. |
| 1:08.5 | One reason for that is high profile figures in the media and politics |
| 1:12.0 | who have been saying that vaccines are not safe. And as you may have heard, one of them, |
| 1:17.7 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now the Secretary of Health and Human Services. As someone who's |
| 1:22.8 | spent a career interviewing people about health care and as a dad. |
| 1:32.0 | You know, I know that every parent wants what's best for their children. |
| 1:37.3 | And when you're hearing lots of confusing information, you're hearing leaders, question vaccines. |
| 1:37.9 | It's hard to know what to do. |
| 1:39.6 | And that's why I'm so pleased to have here today with us today, our guest, Joshua Sharfstein, N.D. |
| 1:49.2 | If the name or face is familiar, that's because he's on TV a lot. |
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