RFK Jr.'s Stunning Claim About Black People And Vaccines Sparks Concern From Medical Experts

[Eugene]

Source: HuffPost

RFK Jr.'s Stunning Claim About Black People And Vaccines Sparks Concern From Medical Experts

Jillian Wilson
Sat, February 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM EST 6 min read

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While his history of anti-vaccine remarks was a major talking point throughout the hearings, his beliefs were also front and center during a heated exchange in which Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) brought up a comment that Kennedy once made about vaccinations and the Black community.

In 2021, Kennedy had said, “We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that’s given to whites, because their immune system is better than ours.”

Alsobrooks asked Kennedy to explain what he meant by that remark, and he went on to reference a “series of studies” while saying research shows that “Blacks need fewer antigens.” (For the record, experts say that this is not true.)

“Right now, how vaccine schedules are tailored is based on things like your age, your exposure risk, if you have other chronic underlying health conditions ― but race isn’t one of them, and there isn’t research that suggests that it should be,” Joel Bervell, a recent medical graduate and medical myth-buster on social media, told HuffPost.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-stunning-claim-black-080003456.html

[Walleye]

1. I think we need massive civil disobedience of these executive orders. What law would be broken if they didn't obey them?

We need to get into a lot of good trouble.

[JohnSJ]

2. This is what you get from a completely incompetent person who has no qualifications

to be giving out medical advice.

The f**ker should be sued.

[unblock]

3. Maybe it's a good thing that the bigotry is now overt and undeniable

Of course, the media will still just whitewash it....

Maybe they'll ask, but not answer, "is it racist?"

[Progressive dog]

4. I can't imagine RFK jr being stupider than I thought

but he's determined to prove me wrong.