WASHINGTON D.C., DC — U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) took aim at Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a heated Senate Finance Committee hearing on Thursday, questioning his grasp of the nation’s COVID-19 response and warning of the devastating impact Medicaid cuts could have on rural hospitals.

Warner pressed Kennedy repeatedly on whether he knew how many Americans died from COVID-19 and whether vaccines prevented additional deaths. At one point, Warner expressed disbelief when Kennedy said he didn’t know the number of U.S. fatalities.

“Do you accept the fact that a million Americans died from COVID?” Warner asked.

“I don’t know how many,” Kennedy replied, adding that “there was so much data chaos coming out of the CDC” that he believed the true toll was un

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