US EditionGermany sharply rejects RFK Jr.'s claims that it prosecutes doctors for vaccine exemptions
German Health Minister Nina Warken said prosecutions targeted only fraud and forgery, not doctors refusing COVID-19 vaccines for medical or personal reasons.
- German Health Minister Nina Warken rejected Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s claim that doctors faced legal action over exemptions, calling the allegations unfounded and factually incorrect.
- Kennedy posted a video on Saturday claiming over a thousand German physicians face prosecution and said he sent Warken a letter urging an end to prosecutions, but provided no sources.
- Explaining legal practice, Nina Warken said, `At no time during the coronavirus pandemic was there any obligation for doctors to carry out vaccines against COVID-19` and prosecutions targeted only fraud and forgery; doctors and patients decide treatments independently.
- The dispute drew swift political pushback as Karl Lauterbach, former German Health Minister, rejected Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s claims and noted Kennedy's vaccine skepticism linked to MAHA.
- Beyond the immediate rebuttal, the dispute raises questions about Germany's independent courts and small vaccine-skeptic protests sometimes aided by far-right movements, highlighting social tensions and Kennedy's claim of doctors as state policy enforcers.
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Germany Rips Kennedy's Claim
Germany's government has publicly denounced Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s accusations that it went after doctors and patients who resisted COVID-19 measures. "The statements made by the US Secretary of Health are completely unfounded, factually incorrect, and must be rejected," German Health Minister Nina Warken said in a statement. Kennedy...
More often than not, the US intervened in German domestic politics under Trump. Due to Corona rulings, Health Minister Kennedy Jr. criticizes his German counterpart and calls her "workin".
Germany against the US in the social media: It's about dealing with the Corona pandemic. The trigger is a sharp criticism of the German government by US Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in particular of Federal Minister of Health Nina Warken (CDU). Kennedy, who has been leading the health department in the cabinet of US President Donald Trump since 2025 and is internationally known for her anti-immune views, had turned to Warken in an …
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The Independent (US)Germany hits back at RFK Jr.’s ‘unfounded’ Covid vaccine claims
Kennedy did not give provide specific examples or say which reports he was referring to
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