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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “CDC did not even start counting [allergies] until 1997.”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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RFK on food allergy research

Published | Video Starts at 00:53

We are going to do them now, and we will identify what is causing these allergies. The allergies, as I said, they've exploded. CDC. They were so rare that CDC did not even start counting [allergies] until 1997. Oh, you know, it's just an obvious question. And we have an institute. I wish I was supposed to watch Jay speak. This program was running a little late, and I have a really tight schedule today. (00:53–00:58)

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Asserts that the CDC began counting allergies in 1997.

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