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US Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said today in a heated hearing to the Senate Committee for Finance that mRNA vaccines would kill people. The most common Covid-19 vaccines, such as Pfizer and Moderna, are based on this technology.
Dispute over vaccination committee
Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) Inquisite Kennedy, Donald Trump’s top health regulator, interviewed to relieve all members of the CDC vaccination advisory board and to replace them with their own candidates.
“If you are aware that … one of these new members, Dr. [Retsef] Levy, wrote that it was ‘undeniable that mRNA vaccines cause severe damage including death, especially in young people’? Yes or no, do you know that he said that? ”Asked Bennet.
“I didn’t know. But I agreed,” replied Kennedy, who has been an opponent for years.
Levy is a professor of surgical management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former intelligence officer of the Israeli army. He has no medical background. A petition calls for his discharge. In January 2023 he wrote on X, MRNA vaccines would have to be stopped immediately.
Kennedy gets into the cross -question
Kennedy’s voice sounded hoarse and strained throughout the session, his heavy breathing was audible over the microphone. He often fought word battles with democratic senators, but also got together with Bill Cassidy (R-La.), A doctor who had previously confirmed him for the office.
“You just said Sen. Bennet that the Covid vaccine killed more people than covid,” said Cassidy. “I didn’t say that,” replied Kennedy.
Cassidy also criticized the fact that patients had difficulty getting vaccinations since the FDA has only made refreshments accessible over 65-year-olds or risk patients.
How many deaths through Covid?
“I would say that we humans refuse to access vaccinations,” said Cassidy. “They are wrong,” Kennedy replied.
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA.) Wanted to know whether Kennedy accepts the number of one million covid dead in the USA. According to John’s Hopkins University, this value was reached in May 2022.
“I don’t know how many have died,” said Kennedy and referred to alleged “data chaos” at the CDC. Warner was stunned and asked if Kennedy believes that vaccination had prevented deaths at all. “I want to see the data and talk about the data,” said Kennedy.
Warner reacted horrified: “The Minister of Health does not know how many Americans have died of Covid does not know whether vaccination saved life – and you sit here as Minister of Health? How can you be so ignorant?”