U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. questioned Dr. Anthony Fauci during an interview with Fox News,
claiming that the former White House medical advisor suffered a pulmonary
infarction months after publicly receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
During the interview, Kennedy Jr. maintained that Fauci received
the vaccine in front of cameras and that, five months later, he suffered a
pulmonary infarction, a condition that, he asserted, is among the possible
adverse effects associated with vaccines.
“Fauci got vaccinated at a very public press conference...
and five months later he suffered a pulmonary infarction, one of the adverse
effects that, according to the NIH, the CDC, and the FDA, are expected from the
vaccine. He never told anyone.”
Kennedy Jr.'s statements reignite the controversy
surrounding the safety of COVID-19 vaccines and the handling of information
during the pandemic.
However, some Democratic officials maintain that the claim
that the vaccine caused Fauci's pulmonary embolism should not be presented as a
proven fact without medical evidence establishing that causal link.
These statements also place Fauci back at the center of the
American political debate, amid ongoing investigations and questioning of his
decisions and statements during the pandemic.