Claim circulates that COVID-19 vaccines increase heart attack risk

A clip has resurfaced of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claiming that COVID-19 vaccines cause heart attacks in vaccinated people at five times the rate of unvaccinated people. The clip originally circulated in January.

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