To the Editor:

With Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s cabinet position in the United States federal government, it is significant to reflect upon two important assertions in his well-known book on Anthony Fauci.

Within Pfizer’s vaccine EUA request, trial data reported significantly higher COVID-19 infection rates for those injected with the placebo compared to those injected with its vaccine, 162 versus 8. This result was widely reported. However, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (1, pp. 190-91) wrote that the trial report for “all-cause” deaths numbered twenty among the vaccinated, yet was lesser — at fourteen — among the placebo recipients. This statement was part of his effort to call into question the mRNA vaccines.