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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “In California, which has the best collecting system. It's…”

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

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And the rate at that time, reported in that study and many other studies at that time, was 0.7 per 10,000. So less than 1 in 10,000. Today, it's 1 in every 25 texted kids. In California, which has the best collecting system. It's one in every 19 kids, one in every 12.5 boys. And so we're doing something to our children that is unprecedented in human history. We are now the sickest population in the world. We have the highest chronic disease burden of any country in the world. (08:45–08:54)

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