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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “CDC's job was to make sure that this didn't happen.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 01:48

… showed that infant mortality has increased in this country in 2024, the first time in 20 years. Diabetes has gone up 98% in 20 years. Nobody's doing anything about it. CDC's job was to make sure that this didn't happen. What we're going to do is reorganize cdc, but also we've already righted the ship at nih, at fda, at C. And we are going to end the chronic disease epidemic. (01:48–01:53)

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Asserts that it was the CDC's responsibility to prevent the increase in diabetes and infant mortality.

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