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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “The fertility levels that we came up with in this last…”

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

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And one of the key metrics that they have to know in order to make that prediction is the fertility rate in American Children. So this is. They do a lot of data collection on fertility. And The fertility levels that we came up with in this last meeting a couple of weeks ago were stunning and historical. And everybody in that room who understood the implications was in shock because we went from 1.9, which is already extremely low, 1.75, and it was the greatest drop in fertility that has been seen in human history. (16:02–16:13)

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