US presidential hopeful Robert F Kennedy Jr has been condemned by relations and the White House for saying COVID was focused to assault Caucasians and black individuals.
Speaking at a current dinner in New York, Mr Kennedy mentioned “there is an argument” that COVID “is ethnically targeted” and that it “attacks certain races disproportionately”.
“COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese,” he added in a video first revealed by The New York Post.
“We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted at that or not but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential of impact for that.”
The nephew of the assassinated former president John F Kennedy is a outstanding anti-vaxxer and has beforehand confronted rebuke for evaluating vaccine mandates to the Holocaust.
His current feedback prompted widespread accusations of antisemitism and racism.
On Monday, Kerry Kennedy issued a press release saying “I strongly condemn my brother’s deplorable and untruthful remarks last week about COVID being engineered for ethnic targeting”.
Mr Kennedy’s nephew Joe Kennedy III, US particular envoy to Northern Ireland, additionally spoke out towards the remarks, writing: “My uncle’s comments were hurtful and wrong. I unequivocally condemn what he said.”
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After the video was made public, Mr Kennedy posted on Twitter that his phrases had been twisted and denied ever suggesting COVID was intentionally engineered to spare Jewish individuals.
He asserted with out proof that there are bioweapons being developed to focus on sure ethnicities, and referred to as for the Post’s article to be retracted.
Researchers and docs pushed again on the assertion, together with Michael Mina, a medical physician and immunologist.
“Beyond the absurdity, biological know-how simply isn’t there to make a virus that targets only certain ethnicities,” Dr Mina wrote on Twitter.
Asked in regards to the video on Monday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned Mr Kennedy’s claims had been false and “vile” and that “they put our fellow Americans in danger”.
Content Source: information.sky.com