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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Mothers are tested when they go into the hospital to have a…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 1:25:50

You want me to reply? Well, if that's. Hepatitis is a terrible disease, but babies are not at risk unless they essentially have zero risk, unless their mother is infected. Mothers are tested when they go into the hospital to have a baby. And for all those people who are infected, the vaccine is still a recommended vaccine. Everybody else, it's available. Parents can assess the risk themselves through informed consent. (1:25:50–1:25:54)

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Asserts that mothers are tested for hepatitis B when they go into the hospital to have a baby.

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