Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on vaccines: what the evidence says · JRE #1999
SUBJECT: VACCINES
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
But in 1976, when they had this, you know, really bad flu shot that they did the same thing with, they did a global rollout and everybody had to take it. And they pulled the shot after 25 deaths reported, 25.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
The 1976 US swine flu immunization program, which vaccinated roughly 45 million people, was suspended in December 1976 primarily because of a sharply elevated incidence of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), a rare paralytic neurological condition, among recipients, not because of a specific death count. Contemporary and later reviews documented several hundred GBS cases linked to the vaccine within weeks of vaccination, alongside the fact the anticipated pandemic never materialized. Fact-checking organizations have found no confirmed, officially verified count of deaths attributable to the vaccine; figures such as 25 or 32 deaths circulate in secondary accounts but are not authoritative, and some reported deaths could not be directly linked to the vaccine. The claim that the program was halted specifically "after 25 deaths reported" mischaracterizes the actual decision driver, a GBS safety signal affecting several hundred people, and cites a death figure that fact-checkers describe as unconfirmed.