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Matt Watts

RFK Jr defends vaccine stance as protesters disrupt confirmation hearing

President Donald Trump's controversial health secretary pick, Robert F Kennedy Jr has defended his stance on vaccines after facing hours of grilling at a confirmation hearing that was interrupted by protesters.

Mr Kennedy rejected being “anti-vaccine” but said he has asked "uncomfortable questions" while he was grilled by a committee of US senators, and at one point was confronted about a statement he made where he described how Covid-19 was engineered to target white and black people while sparing Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.

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