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Fact checking Robert F Kennedy’s statements to Senate on COVID, vaccines

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr testifies during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on September 4, 2025 [Alex Wroblewski/AFP]

United States Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr sparred with US senators over his management of health agencies and past comments about COVID-19 vaccines and antidepressants. At several points during the hours-long Senate Finance Committee hearing on Thursday, Kennedy said senators were making up information or distorting his record.

“You are being dishonest right now,” he told Democrat Senator Tina Smith after she said he had blamed antidepressants on a recent school shooting in her home state of Minnesota.

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