What did Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claim about the pandemic on 2 Aug 2026?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services ·
We have the highest death rate from COVID of any nation on Earth.
The U.S. did not have the world's highest COVID death rate. A peer-reviewed study put its excess death rate at 179 per 100,000, against 735 in Bolivia and over 300 in 21 countries.
A peer-reviewed study of excess mortality in 2020 and 2021 found the highest excess death rate due to COVID-19 in Bolivia, 734.9 per 100,000 people, with rates above 300 per 100,000 in 21 countries; the U.S. rate was 179.3 per 100,000 (COVID-19 Excess Mortality Collaborators, The Lancet, 2022).
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- Interview with Dana Bash on CNN's State of the Union.
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