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RFK Jr.’s Misleading Line on the Chickenpox Vaccine

RFK Jr.’s Misleading Line on the Chickenpox Vaccine

Speaking before Congress, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert. F. Kennedy Jr. misleadingly claimed that Europe doesn’t vaccinate children against chickenpox because a study shows that when you do, “you get shingles in older people.” While that is a theoretical concern, studies have not borne that out — and parts of Europe do vaccinate kids.