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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Infant mortality has increased in this country in 2024, the…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 01:35

So our lifespan was even with Europe's now at six years behind. As I said to, as I remarked to Chairman Wyden this morning, our Minority Leader, Biden, today we got new data that 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. (01:35–01:43)

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Asserts that U.S. infant mortality increased in 2024 for the first time in 20 years.

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