Mia Farrow Hits RFK Jr. With 'Terrifying' Memory Of Polio Experience: 'We Cannot Go Back'

LOADING ERROR LOADING “No RFK Jr. we cannot go back to this. Thanks to ghe vaccine, kids don’t have to go through that nightmare today.” The actor and activist — who has worked on polio vaccination campaigns and looked to raise awareness for the disease — also attached a photo of children in iron lung respirators at California’s Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in the 1950s. The Times report has also drawn critics such as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a polio survivor, who noted in a statement Friday that the polio vaccine “has saved millions of lives and held out the promise of eradicating a terrible disease.” “Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed – they’re dangerous,” he said. He continued, “Anyone seeking the Senate’s consent to serve in the incoming Administration would do well to steer clear of even the appearance of association with such efforts.” Polio, which can cause lifelong paralysis and death, has continued to have a presence in the U.S. and beyond since the approval of its vaccine in 1955. “We still need to give the polio vaccine as long as these strains are in the environment,” said Dr. Paul Offit, an expert in vaccines at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, in an interview with the Times.