4 fact-checks from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Senate testimony over COVID-19 vaccines, CDC Health Sep 5, 2025 12:12 PM EDT

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

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

When Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy from Louisiana said the government was “effectively” denying people vaccines,

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