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Fact Check: There WERE Children's Hospitals In The U.S. When Rob Schneider Was A Kid — Since At Least 1855
Did the United States have no children's hospitals in the 1960s and 1970s, when comedian Rob Schneider was a child? No, that's not true: The first children's hospital was opened in Philadelphia in 1855, with 26 operating by 1895, according to an academic paper. Hospitals opened in the 1960s include St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis.
The claim originated in a post (archived here) published by Rob Schneider on X on October 22, 2025. It read:
FYI…There were NO Children's Hospitals when I was a kid.Because kids weren't sick.
This is what the post looked like at the time of writing:
Schneider, a comedic actor, has been an outspoken critic of American healthcare — specifically mandated childhood vaccinations — for several years. His social media posts and his public performances often include messages about his belief that vaccinations are to blame for many childhood illnesses. It is unclear if he was serious about the claim that there were no hospitals when he was a child, which would have been from about 1963 to about 1980. Lead Stories was unable to reach Schneider to ask him, but someone close to him (who spoke on condition of anonymity) said it looked like a joke since he was "totally aware of children's hospitals as he was a big volunteer as a kid for the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon."
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Rob Schneider is failed ex cast member from “Saturday Night Live.”
He’s also in every Adam Sandler movie. The only reason could be that he’s got incriminating pictures of the Sandman in a vault.
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'Nutjob' Rob Schneider Slammed for Falsely Claiming Kids Never Got 'Sick' Until Recently: 'Dumber Than the Characters He Plays'
Rob Schneider is under fire after claiming children didn't get sick when he was growing up in the 1960s.
Rob Schneider sparked outrage and was slammed after making false claims about the history of America's healthcare.
On Thursday, October 23, the actor was tweeting various posts mocking the No Kings rallies — which protested Donald Trump being in office — and promoting Republican views when he made a random allegation about how often children get sick.
Rob Schneider was dragged for incorrectly claiming kids didn't get 'sick' until recently.
"FYI… There were NO Children’s Hospitals when I was a kid. Because kids weren’t sick," the star, 61, tweeted.