Chair of CDC's Vaccine Panel Questions Need for Polio Vaccines

Sunday, January 25, 2026

Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist recently appointed as chair of a highly influential federal vaccine committee, questioned the need for immunizing against illnesses like polio in a podcast interview released Thursday.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 07:31 AM | 15 COMMENTS | permalink

BREAKING NEWS FROM 1955: Get the polio vaccine.

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-- Governor Gavin Newsom (@governor.ca.gov) Jan 23, 2026 at 7:15 PM

Comments

Make iron lungs great again.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-24 12:48 PM

This is insanity.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-24 12:52 PM

"Our sanitation is different, our risk of disease is different"

Within living memory, they had to close SWIMMING POOLS during polio outbreaks.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-24 12:53 PM

Tangentially related ...

US measles cases rise, spread to five more states
www.mercurynews.com

... Measles is surging across the US with five new states reporting cases this week, including California, Minnesota and Washington.

Idaho and Kentucky are the other two states with new cases, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This follows reports of measles earlier this month in nine states: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia.

South Carolina, which is the largest outbreak, reported 700 total cases on Friday, up from 54 since Jan. 20, a tally that tracks the number of cases reported since the epidemic began in October. The CDC switched from reporting data on Wednesdays to Fridays this week, which added two days' worth of data. ...

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-24 01:31 PM

Every --------- who voted for the necrotic------------------- deserves to choke out on a ventilator.

#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-24 03:20 PM

In the Fifties, when I was in Grade Five, a neighborhood friend died in his iron lung at a local hospital. I got the vaccine and survived.

#6 | Posted by john47 at 2026-01-25 11:26 AM

"The entire Trump project - and to a larger extent the MAGA movement"is at its core an exercise in collective delusion. The whole enterprise rests on Americans rejecting the very facts staring them in the face."

Janna Brancolini

#7 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2026-01-25 11:51 AM

AKA Fox News.

#8 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-25 11:53 AM

Wild polio is extinct. The only polio any more is caused by the vaccine.

#9 | Posted by john_savage1 at 2026-01-25 12:51 PM | Reply | Flag:

I think you have tertiary syphilis. Or an 80 IQ. Or both.

#10 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-25 12:52 PM

" The only polio any more is caused by the vaccine."

I'm curious: can you taste the stupid when you post something that dumb?

#11 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-01-25 12:54 PM

I'm curious: can you taste the stupid when you post something that dumb?

#11 | POSTED BY DANFORTH

If You Told Trump 'Martians Came and Stole Votes,' He'd Believe It.
-Lindsey Graham

Of course this applies to his rabid cult followers, too.

#12 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-25 01:00 PM

This monsters in the federal government are following Project 2025. Project 2025, which this administration is following, does not have the need of poor people. Even the middle class is not really needed in 'their' future with AI and robots doing the work instead of citizens. Thus, they have no problem gutting anything to help the poor and middle class even survive into the future. Read the thing.

en.wikipedia.org

#13 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2026-01-25 02:20 PM

Sometimes people are so protected from dangers that they forget they exist.(see the current measles outbreaks and our upcoming polio outbreaks for reference)

#14 | Posted by censored at 2026-01-25 04:34 PM

Wild polio is extinct. The only polio any more is caused by the vaccine.

#9 | Posted by john_savage1

No, it's not. Otherwise, the eradication project would be declared successful.

There are a few dozen wild polio cases a year in places like Pakistan and Afghanistan.

For those ragging on his statement, he's correct about the vaccine caused polio. In many places, the live attenuated poliovirus vaccine is used because of easier logistical considerations and induction of more complete immunity. An unfortunate side effect is that vaccinated people will shed virus for weeks after vaccination and it reverts to wildtype Poliovirus Type II, which can cause disease in people who are unvaccinated or who had a poor response to the vaccine.

#15 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-25 05:12 PM

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