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Jon Henley Europe correspondent

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Germany rejects rfk jr claims about covid vaccine exemption prosecutions | History Defined

Robert F. Kennedy Jr X Germany Vaccine Covid-19 Karl Lauterbach United States
The US secretary of health and human services, Robert F Kennedy Jr
Kennedy posted comments about purported ‘politically motivated prosecutions’ in Germany. Photograph: Annabelle Gordon/UPI/Shutterstock

The German government has sharply rejected claims by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, that doctors in Germany have faced legal action for issuing vaccine and mask exemptions during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“The statements made by the US secretary of health are completely unfounded, factually incorrect, and must be rejected,” Germany’s health minister, Nina Warken, said in a strongly worded statement released late on Saturday.

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