Inside RFK Jr.'s push against the flu vaccine that he links to his voice condition

[Nevilledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/02/21/vaccine-safety-risk-kennedy-rfk/

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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.

In a 2020 appearance on the web show run by the anti-vaccine group he founded, he said, “I got [spasmodic dysphonia]. That’s what’s wrong with my voice, and it is a listed side effect of the flu vaccine.” Now in his role as the most powerful public health official in the nation, he continues to say that the vaccination may have caused his condition. He told USA Today in mid-January: “It’s a potential culprit that I cannot rule out.”

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[struggle4progress]

1. Maybe years of self-medicating with impure illegal substances produced his voice problems

[dweller]

2. He could just have easily

caught something from a toilet seat … so we will have to ban toilet seats next ?






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[peggysue2]

3. Strange how Kennedy attributes his speech problems to the flu vaccine but . . .

Never mentions his years of drug addiction to heroin and cocaine, even confessing to snorting cocaine off of toilet seats.

Hummmm.

[MagickMuffin]

4. Wouldn't everyone else who's gotten the flu vaccine also have this condition?

Does the flu vaccine have selective oversight on who it will affect with this voice condition?

Why are we listening or taking advice from an abuser of black market drugs?