The HHS secretary repeated several false and misleading claims.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeated false and misleading claims on a wide range of health topics in his hearing Thursday before the Senate Finance Committee. Chiefly, he reiterated false or unsubstantiated claims about the purported harms of vaccination. Several senators also made misleading or false statements.

Here are some of the major claims that are false or misleading:

Claim: Children get too many vaccines early in life

Fact check: False and misleading

Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, pointed to a sign that said "76 JABS," noting that is how many vaccines children in the U.S. received.

This is an overestimate of the number of shots. It is true that children and teens may receive dozens of vaccines before adulthood, especially if you count annual COVID and flu shots.

Generally, children get about 30 shots by 2 years of age. These multiple doses do not overwhelm a baby's immune system, the CDC says. Vaccines are often clustered early in life because they are a high-risk population, and you want kids to get immunized before they are exposed to vaccine-preventable illnesses. Many vaccines are now combined into one shot for fewer...

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