RFK Jr Lawyer Wants to Revoke Approval for Polio Vaccine

Saturday, December 14, 2024

The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.

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Polio survivor Leader McConnell responds to RFK Jr aide Aaron Siri -- who has called for the authorization for the Polio vaccine to be pulled -- reviewing candidates for top jobs at HHS www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h ...

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I read the Times article this morning. The petition was made in 2022, not that they won't try again if they think they can win.

#1 | Posted by qcp at 2024-12-13 11:11 AM | Reply

I think the problem is that so many MAGA don't remember what polio actually is or what it can do.

Just like they don't remember what an economic depression is or what it can do.

Millions of MAGA, who are not already sick and broke, will end up sick and broke.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-13 11:29 AM | Reply

Good enough for FDR, good enough for RFK.

Hey, FDR is always rated in the top two of the greatest presidents. Maybe Trump is hoping a resurgence of polio will make America great again!

#3 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2024-12-13 11:43 AM | Reply

How many Americans are the orange pedo and polio Bob fixing to kill?

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-12-14 09:52 AM | Reply

Make Smallpox Great Again!!

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-14 12:18 PM | Reply

Does Sweatshop Barbie have a Chinese trademark for iron lungs?

#6 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-12-14 03:10 PM | Reply

... The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, ...

... and just how might Mr Siri be advising nominee-Kennedy?

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-14 08:28 PM | Reply

Did Fat Donnie Fuqtard invest in iron lungs?

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-12-14 10:38 PM | Reply

In a country where wild polio is extinct, the vaccine causes more vaccine-induced polio than it could eliminate. Any wild polio in US is brought here by migrants, who are not required to be screened nor vaccinated.

#9 | Posted by oi_veh at 2024-12-15 02:42 AM | Reply

When was the last case of polio in the United States?
Recently the disease made headlines again when a case was detected in the United States in July 2022: an unvaccinated 20-year-old man was diagnosed with a type known as "vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV)."

#10 | Posted by oi_veh at 2024-12-15 03:05 AM | Reply

" Any wild polio in US is brought here by migrants, who are not required to be screened nor vaccinated.
#9 | POSTED BY OI_VEH AT 2024-12-15 02:42 AM"

I suspect any wild polio virus in the US could also be brought in by most any traveler who is not screened nor vaccinated and not just migrants. Given that the number of travelers coming to the US vastly outnumbers the number of migrants, that is a much more likely source of wild polio virus cases in the US. Such was the case of the July 2022 incidence in the US:

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

#11 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2024-12-15 04:06 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#9 | Posted by oi_veh

You don't understand what a vaccine is. I wish that I was surprised. One can only guess, with horror, what other fundamental facts of life you don't comprehend.

You don't like migrants, fine. Just for Christsakes get your kids vaccinated, if any of them still live..

#12 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-15 08:42 AM | Reply

You don't understand what a vaccine is.

#12 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-15 08:42 AM | Reply | Flag:

There's two definitions of what a vaccine is now. One prior to 2021, and one after 2021. Can you spot the difference?

#13 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-12-15 12:27 PM | Reply

Can you spot the difference?

#13 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Ignorance and hysteria.

#14 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-15 12:36 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#13 | Posted by lfthndthrds

You people so desperately want to be right on the subject of disease because if you aren't you're just a collection of Medieval jackasses.

#15 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-15 12:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"When was the last case of polio in the United States?"

So. There was a "last case"? And polio was eradicated from America.

That would mean that the vaccine worked. (Even if a small percentage did not)

Unless you think that polio somehow eradicated itself.

#16 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-15 01:13 PM | Reply