RFK Jr. admits he would ‘probably’ still give his children the measles vaccine despite failing to endorse the shot

Health Secretary RFK Jr: People shouldn't be taking medical advice from meSource: Reuters

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00:00If you had a child today, would you vaccinate that child for measles?

00:03For measles?

00:07Probably for measles.

00:09You know, what I would say is my opinions about vaccines are irrelevant.

00:15I have directed Jay Bhattacharya to the science so that everybody can make that decision.

00:22But I don't want to seem like I'm being evasive.

00:25But I don't think people should be taking advice, medical advice from me.

00:30Right.

00:30No, I got that.

00:31And I'm not asking you to give them medical advice, but would you vaccinate your child for measles?

00:35I think if I answer that question directly that it will seem like I'm giving advice to other people.

00:41And I don't want to be doing that.

00:42I want people to make a problem.

00:43But that's kind of your jurisdiction because CDC does give advice, right?

00:46I'm not trying to do it as a gotcha.

00:47I think what we're going to try to do is to lay out the pros and cons,

00:54the risks and benefits accurately as we understand them with replicable studies.

01:00Would you, can you talk about chickenpox?

01:03Would you vaccinate your child against chickenpox?

01:08I, again, I don't want to give advice.

01:11I can tell you in Europe they don't use the chickenpox vaccine specifically

01:15because the preclinical trial shows that when you inoculate the population of chickenpox,

01:21you get shingles in older people, which is more dangerous.

01:25Just one last.