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

" 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 | Newsworthy 1

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 | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 2

"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 | Newsworthy 1

Make Iron Lungs Great Again. There you go something we can manufacture right here in the good old USA, since no other country is insane enough to do this, this will be Dotard's version of infrastructure week. The MAGAts, who obviously read no better than their demented illiterate gawd king probably think it's the Polo vaccine, and they prefer tee shirts to polo shirts anyway, so who needs it?

#17 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2024-12-15 11:52 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Make Iron Lungs Great Again.

#17 | Posted by _Gunslinger

Oh, yes. That will happen. And when it does MAGA won't blame a lack of vaccines. They might blame Biden, me, or sundry demons.

Anyone but their stupid selves.

#18 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-16 08:35 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Let's put a guy with brain worms in charge of health, what could go wrong?

#19 | Posted by Sezu at 2024-12-16 08:51 AM | Reply

What is this? Mitch the ----- developing some sort of conscience after he did everything in his power to tear down the fabric this nation was built on? I hope that ------- rots in hell.

#20 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-12-16 09:57 AM | Reply

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

Only according to MAGAts like you who think science is "exact". The rest of us understood even the best most thoroughly tested vaccines against the most stable of diseases were never 100%.

#21 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-12-16 10:02 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

There are pictures online of the last surviving person who caught polio as a child and spent the last ~70 years in an iron lung. Go online, look at the pictures and read about him, then decide if this is the life you want for your children.

#22 | Posted by Hickory at 2024-12-16 10:26 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Posted by Hickory at 2024-12-16 10:26 AM | Reply

He just passed away recently.

#23 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-12-16 10:28 AM | Reply

#22 | Posted by Hickory

I read about him a year or two ago. The last few years were a complete struggle to find parts to keep the Iron Lung working since nobody makes them anymore because the vaccine wiped out Polio and the long time survivors that required them were dying off.

#24 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-12-16 10:48 AM | Reply

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

I have a hunch your teachers always returned your tests face down.

#25 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-12-16 11:00 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

#22 | Posted by Hickory at 2024-12-16 10:26 AM | Reply | Flag:

Progressives don't care about children, they care about control. More specifically, what healthcare choices you're allowed to make - unless its abortion, and then its anything goes.

#26 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-12-16 01:01 PM | Reply

I have a hunch your teachers always returned your tests face down.

#25 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-12-16 11:00 AM | Reply | Flag:

That's really special, coming from someone who spends time listening to the ramblings of a fake dOcToR, pDh on this site. The so called dOcToR who spent the last "pandemic" working as a short order cook.

#27 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-12-16 01:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1