“When John F. Kennedy was president, 6% of American kids had a chronic health condition. Today it is 60%.”
What FactCheck.org found
There’s no good way to track chronic conditions in U.S. kids between the 1960s and the present, given changes in how chronic conditions are diagnosed, tracked and defined.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Independent presidential candidate) made this claim around 2 August 2024. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 August 2024. Its rating was “Unsupported”.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has 55 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 27 of them false or fake, 27 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://web.archive.org/web/20240709185952/https://www.kennedy24.com/end-chronic-disease
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