Polio Was That Bad

Optional vaccines? CDC chair's bizarre views would turn US into deadly experiment

On January 22, Kirk Milhoan, chair of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices–installed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who had previously purged the committee’s entire prior membership–made some truly bizarre statements that got largely buried in that week’s blizzard of insane news. In any normal week (one where, say, the president of the United States wasn’t threatening to seize Greenland and ICE wa…

Rejecting decades of science, vaccine panel chair says polio and other shots should be optional – PR informa

A worker prepares polio vaccines at a pop-up clinic at the Rockland County Department of Health in Pomona, N.Y. on July 22, 2022. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times) By APOORVA MANDAVILLI Offering a startlingly candid view into the philosophy guiding vaccine recommendations under the Trump administration, the leader of the federal panel that recommends vaccines for Americans said shots against polio and measles — and perhaps all diseases — shoul…

Polio Was That Bad

Polio Was That Bad One of RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers recently floated the idea of stopping vaccination against the virus. It would be catastrophic. By Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic  In the United States, polio is a memory, and a fading one at that. The last major outbreak here happened in 1952; the virus was declared eliminated […] Source