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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “There are some vaccines, like the [pertussis] vaccine, that…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 07:51

Because there is a measles. Well, I would say definitely so for the measles vaccine, because you see where I'm getting at, right? There's science on all the vaccines. There are some vaccines, like the [pertussis] vaccine, that don't prevent transmission. And you know, there are. That in some ways can be dangerous too, because what can happen is that people do not get. Become symptomatic and yet they're capable of spreading it. (07:51–07:57)

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Asserts that some vaccines, such as the pertussis vaccine, do not prevent transmission.

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