Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a candidate for Health Secretary, has affirmed his support for the polio vaccine, aiming to mitigate the controversy surrounding his advisor's past attempts to restrict access to the vaccine. This stance contrasts with Kennedy's previous skepticism and spread of misinformation regarding vaccines.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is voicing his support for the polio vaccine as he tries to tamp down backlash over his longtime adviser’s efforts to roll back access to the lifesaving vaccine and win over GOP senators whose votes he will need to be confirmed as health secretary. “I’m all for the polio vaccine,” Kennedy told reporters Monday as he walked into the Capitol to meet with Republicans. Later, Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., said Kennedy had reassured him.
Kennedy’s seeming support for the polio vaccine now does not square with his history of expressing skepticism and spreading falsehoods about the vaccine — as well as the efficacy of vaccines in general. Just last year, for example, Kennedy suggested on a podcast that the polio vaccine may have caused cancers that “killed many, many, many, many, many more people than polio ever did,” saying the vaccine contains simian virus 40, or SV40.
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