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To: Les H who wrote (47450)9/5/2025 9:12:31 AM
From: Les H  Read Replies (1) of 48738
 
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during an explosive hearing refused to acknowledge more than 1 million Americans died from coronavirus and was reluctant to give COVID-19 vaccines credit in saving lives.

Kennedy's skepticism about the role vaccines played to slow the COVID pandemic was the focus of a heated exchange with Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia. The nation's top health official defended his tenure on Sept. 4 before the Senate Finance Committee amid turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"I don't know how many died," Kennedy said when Warner asked him whether he accepts that more than 1 million Americans died from COVID, as is widely accepted in the health community. "I don't think anybody knows because there was so much data chaos coming out of the CDC."

The senator then asked whether he believes COVID vaccines did anything to prevent people from dying from the virus.

"Again, I would like to see the data and talk about the data," Kennedy said in response.

Pressed again on the question by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, Kennedy conceded COVID-19 vaccines "saved quite a few" lives but said he doesn't know how many.

According to the most recent data publicized by the CDC, more than 1.2 million Americans had died from COVID as of Aug. 23. Numerous independent studies have found COVID vaccinations saved millions of lives in the United States and millions more around the world. More than 3.2 million American lives were saved from the first two years of COVID vaccinations, according to researchers in one study from the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund.

usatoday.com
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