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CBS News medical contributor Dr. Céline Gounder is declaring a few of Kennedy’s contradictions on vaccines.

He has commented that “there is no vaccine that’s protected and efficient,” but in addition stated “a number of the live-virus vaccines are in all probability averting extra issues than they’re inflicting.”

RFK Jr. has repeated false claims linking vaccines to autism — a idea debunked by many years of scientific analysis. However he insists he isn’t anti-vax, saying in November, “If vaccines are working for any person, I am not going to take that means. Individuals should have selection.”

Gounder, who can also be editor-at-large for public well being at KFF Well being News, stated on “CBS Mornings Plus” Wednesday forward of the listening to that Kennedy’s “personal phrases exhibit an actual confusion about vaccines and the science of vaccines.”

“He is saying, on the one hand, ‘Oh, perhaps these dwell virus vaccines, a few of these are OK,’ (however) he is particularly in opposition to the measles vaccine that may be a dwell virus vaccine,” once more contradicting himself.

Gounder alse referred to as his statements linking autism to vaccines “totally debunked.”

“We must be finding out what causes autism, however in the event you’re finding out the fallacious issues, you are by no means going to determine what it’s,” she stated. “I believe large image on vaccines, he’s very harmful, each via the facility of the bully pulpit, but in addition via the facility of the CDC and the FDA.”


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