'One of Kennedy's majors may have been history at Harvard, but it seems to have had little effect on his actual understanding of the subject,' writes Peter Bergen | Opinion
Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. He is the senior editor of the Coronavirus Daily Brief and author of the new book"The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden." The opinions expressed here are his own. Read more opinion at CNN.
For many years, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been a leader of the anti-vaccination movement in the United States. And, for much of that time, he has been seen as an outlier. Even before the pandemic, several of his family members -- including Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the former lieutenant governor of Maryland and former US Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II -- had taken him to task for spreading"dangerous misinformation" about vaccines.
Peter Bergen Now Kennedy is one of the leaders of a movement that is encouraging Americans to risk their own health and even that of others, since those who are vaccinated can help reduce the risk of severe disease and help to limit the scope of the pandemic, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .
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