00:00Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Kenney, for being here again.
00:03For decades, parents in this country were able to send their kids to school
00:08without worrying about whether they could come home with a dangerous case of the flu
00:11or a dangerous case of the measles, as my colleague from South Carolina is saying.
00:17Last year, we saw the largest number of children die from the flu in modern history.
00:25Are you familiar with that, Mr. Secretary?
00:28Yes, I am.
00:31And have you told President Trump about that,
00:34that last year was the largest childhood death of flu in modern America?
00:40Well, that's one of the reasons that FDA just approved two new vaccines for influenza A and influenza B.
00:49Because you would agree that last year was the worst year on record in terms of flu deaths in modern
00:55history,
00:56not in the old days, not in those...
00:58Right. In the old days, we were having hundreds of thousands.
01:01You're right. Of course.
01:03And do you agree that 89% of the children who died from flu were unvaccinated?
01:12I don't know the exact number.
01:14That is the exact number, Mr. Kennedy.
01:17And it was, you know, I think of interest to a lot of people in America
01:24that you took down the communications from HHS on the flu,
01:31the importance of getting a vaccine when you first became the secretary.
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