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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Feb 21, 2026, 05:30 PM 23 hrs ago

RFK jr. blames his raspy voice on the flu vaccine [View all]

Inside RFK Jr.’s long-running crusade against the flu vaccine

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent years campaigning against vaccines, but with the flu shot, he’s suggested it’s personal. Kennedy has linked his strained, raspy speech to the vaccine, despite several medical experts saying there is no scientific evidence to support that claim.

Federal guidance revised under Kennedy last month, while the United States is experiencing a hard-hitting flu season, no longer recommends routine flu vaccines for children and adolescents. The day after he assumed office a year ago, he ordered the end of a government ad campaign encouraging flu vaccination.

Kennedy has repeatedly said he suspects the flu vaccine triggered his spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological voice disorder, and that he stopped getting flu shots in 2005.

Although he acknowledges he is unable to prove a connection, he said his eyes were opened to a link after reading vaccine inserts while he was engaged in litigation against flu vaccine manufacturers.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/inside-rfk-jr-long-running-125709372.html

Sure, it wasn't all the controlled substance you used to do?
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