After Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came under fire in Congress Thursday over data on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness, National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya told Newsmax the Biden administration “made the data corrupt in a way that’s hard to disentangle.”
Kennedy has voiced distrust of research that showed the COVID-19 vaccines saved lives, and at Thursday’s hearing cast doubt on statistics about how people died during the pandemic and on estimates about how many deaths were averted — statistics produced by the agencies he oversees.
“Secretary Kennedy is right. I don’t really know the actual number because it’s just a lot of data issues,” Bhattacharya said during an appearance on “America Right Now.”
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