Overview
- Kennedy Jr. announced on Saturday via X that he sent a letter on Friday to Health Minister Nina Warken about prosecutions tied to COVID-era exemption documents, misspelling her name as "Workin."
- In his post and an attached video, he alleged that more than 1,000 doctors and thousands of patients are being prosecuted over mask and vaccine waivers, without providing sources for the numbers.
- He called the actions politically motivated, argued patient autonomy is being sidelined, and urged Germany to end prosecutions and reinstate medical licenses he says were wrongly revoked.
- German courts have handled numerous such cases, including a Bundesgerichtshof–upheld sentence of one year and ten months for issuing false mask exemptions.
- A separate case in Baden-Württemberg resulted in a two-year-nine-month prison term and a three-year professional ban, and no official response from German authorities to Kennedy’s letter was reported.