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“You can't sue" vaccine companies, "no matter how negligent they are.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. HHS Secretary. Claim dated 28 Jul 2025.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse

What FactCheck.org found

A person must go through the vaccine court first, but can still sue for claims of negligence, fraud, manufacturing defects or a failure to warn a patient’s doctor.

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (HHS Secretary) made this claim around 28 July 2025. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 15 August 2025, 18 days later. Its rating was “False”.

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.

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