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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaigned on an anti-vaccine platform as he questioned the scientific data behind vaccines. During his campaign, RFK Jr. promised to ban COVID and polio vaccines. He claimed COVID vaccines were the “deadliest ever created.”

Now the failed presidential candidate appears to be backtracking from his anti-vaccine stance.

The news comes after President Trump announced a $500 billion joint venture with OpenAI and Softbank to create MRNA cancer vaccines.

Oracle’s Larry Ellison said AI can develop “personalized cancer vaccines” in just under 48 hours.

Kennedy Jr. is reportedly assuring Republican senators that he’s “all for” vaccines.

RFK Jr. told the senators that he isn’t going to ban any vaccines.

According to lawmakers who spoke to Politico.com, Kennedy Jr. told senators he just wants to make safety and efficacy data easier to access.

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RFK Jr. (center) previously suggested that the measles vaccine causes autism and that the polio vaccines may have killed “many, many, many, many, many more people than polio ever did.”

But now he is backing vaccines as long as they pass safety tests.

“He told me he is not anti-vaccine. He is pro-vaccine safety, which strikes me as a rational position to take,” Senator John Cornyn told Politico.

One vaccine that has proven to work is the HPV vaccine. Cervical cancer deaths have plummeted 62% in girls and womens under age 25, according to a study published in the journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Experts say HPV vaccine uptake at about 60% for adolescents aged 13-15 could eliminate cervical cancer. However, childhood vaccination rates have dropped since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.