Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Cousin Says His Vaccine Views Are 'Dangerous'
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Caroline Kennedy's remarks against RFK Jr. are just the latest from his family.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s cousin called his vaccine views “dangerous” and contradict what most Americans likely believe.
“I think Bobby’s views on vaccines are dangerous, but I don’t think most Americans share them,” Caroline Kennedy, who is the U.S. ambassador to Australia, said at the National Press Club in Canberra, Australia. “We’ll just have to wait and see what happens. But I grew up with him, so I’ve known all of this for a long time, and others are just getting to know him.”
Caroline said her family has fought for affordable health care for decades and is “united” in support of the public health sector and has “greatest admiration” for the medical profession ― but RFK Jr. has a “different set of views.”
Last week, President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate Kennedy to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. The announcement was met with backlash because, for decades, Kennedy has been an anti-vaccine activist, pushing the narrative that vaccines were harmful to children and lead to autism.
His vaccine skepticism has had deathly effects. In 2019, Kennedy visited Samoa, where he lended credibility to anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists. A few months later, Samoa had a measles outbreak, which killed 83 people, most of them children.
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