Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attempted to stop the federal rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine six months after it began.
The son of the former United States Attorney General and Donald Trump 's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services has faced backlash over his views on vaccines in general .
He has insisted that he is not necessarily anti-vaccine and does support the jab for the polio virus .
However, research into the one-time presidential hopeful's past has unearthed a petition he filed with the Food and Drug Administration to stop authorizing the shots and not approve any new ones.
In May 2021, when he filed the petition, the New York Times says the jab is estimated to have already saved about 140,000 lives.
However, Kennedy - whose nonprofit Children's Health Defense filed the petition - claimed the benefits of the vaccine were not worth the health risks and that reasonably good treatments like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine were available.
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