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Top Vaccine Scientist Peter Hotez Reveals What Fauci Asked Him To Do About RFK Jr.
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24:09Now PlayingDr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, joins Jim Acosta to take apart RFK Jr.'s vaccine claims as U.S. measles cases hit their highest level since 1991. Hotez reveals that Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins once asked him to spend a full year talking privately with Kennedy about vaccines and autism — and says it became clear Kennedy had no interest in the science, which is why he later refused to debate him on Joe Rogan's show. With Kennedy now running HHS, Hotez says vaccines are only the "foot in the door" of a wider campaign to prop up the wellness influencer industry, and warns the damage to America's pandemic preparedness could last a generation.
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