Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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who were only there for a couple of months, that it might've been better to keep some of those people and change the culture.
We're the sickest country in the world.
We have the highest chronic disease burden in the world.
And that's one of the reasons during COVID we had 19% of the COVID deaths in our country.
And we only have 4.2% of the world's population.
And so the question is why did America do worse than any country in the world in COVID?
Was it mismanaging?
Part of it was that.
But the big part โ and this is what CDC says โ
We're the sickest country in the world.
The average American who died from COVID had 3.8 chronic diseases.
And that's really what was killing them.
It was very hard to die from COVID if you were healthy.
And so, you know, we need to get Americans healthy.
We need to end the chronic disease epidemic right now.
We spend two to three times on our health care per capita what they spend in Europe.
And yet we have the worst health outcomes in the world.
We're 79th.
We have, you know, we've dropped behind Europe by six years in lifespan, 10 years in some cases.
And yet our health outcomes are worse.