The 2024 candidate was denounced for what he claimed was a 'misinterpretation.'
In the recording, Kennedy can be heard making a series of false and misleading claims, including saying, "We don’t know whether it [COVID-19] was deliberately targeted or not, but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact."
A spokesperson for the ADL told ABC News that Kennedy could be feeding "into sinophobic and antisemitic conspiracy theories about COVID-19 that we have seen evolve over the last three years."that "Robert Kennedy Jr.’s assertion that COVID was genetically engineered to spare Jewish and Chinese people is deeply offensive and incredibly dangerous.
“There is a wide ocean between genetic markers and real-world evidence of impact," said John Brownstein, an ABC News contributor and chief innovation officer at Boston Children's Hospital. "Clearly there are so many risk factors that influence how the virus impacted different demographic groups." He said that while the two disagree "vociferously" on a number of topics, they still speak nearly every day. Boteach added that he believes Kennedy is an ally to Jews, not an antisemite, but he condemned Kennedy's comments.
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