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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Colorectal cancer has grown by 500% [among children aged 10…”

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

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HHS Secretary RFK Jr., CMS Administrator Dr. Oz Announce New Mental Health Initiative

Published | Video Starts at 03:08

We're having an epidemic of colorectal cancer now among children and 10 to 14 year old children the last decade Colorectal cancer has grown by 500% [among children aged 10 to 14] in the last decade. That is, we have a healthcare crisis, but we also have a mental health crisis. And that's a crisis of loneliness. It's a crisis of despair, a fragmentation of atomization, of just disconnection from community. (03:08–03:16)

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Asserts a 500% increase in colorectal cancer among children aged 10 to 14 in the last decade.

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