Polio survivor Mitch McConnell slams ‘dangerous’ push by RFK Jr lawyer to kill vaccine | EUROtoday

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Outgoing Republican Senate chief and polio survivor Mitch McConnell on Friday condemned Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawyer’s “dangerous” efforts to kill the polio vaccine.

Attorney Aaron Siri in 2022 petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to revoke its approval for a number of crucial childhood vaccines, together with the polio vaccine. News of Siri’s motion resurfaced simply weeks after RFK Jr was named by President-elect Donald Trump as his choose to be secretary of Health and Human Services. Siri is at the moment serving to Kennedy vet officers to serve within the division.

Kennedy is understood for his excessive anti-vaccine positions that are extensively derided by the mainstream medical group. Siri’s petition claimed the vaccine was not correctly examined to make sure it was protected, regardless of its decade-long use defending thousands and thousands of kids from contracting the illness.

“The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives and held out the promise of eradicating a terrible disease,” McConnell stated in a press release following Siri’s motion. “Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous.”

McConnell contracted polio as a toddler and stuggled with paralysis introduced on by the usually deadly illness. To this present day he nonetheless grapples with stiffness in his legs.

“Like millions of families before them, my parents knew the pain and fear of watching their child struggle with the life-altering diagnosis of polio,” McConnell stated in a press release.

“From the age of two, normal life without paralysis was only possible for me because of the miraculous combination of modern medicine and a mother’s love. But for millions who came after me, the real miracle was the saving power of the polio vaccine.”

Neither Siri nor RFK Jr. instantly responded to McConnell’s assault.