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Gaza toddlers got the polio vaccine, then an Israeli bomb took their legs

Deir el-Balah, Gaza – Three-year-old Hanan al-Daqqi spends her days with her younger sister Misk, occasionally asking questions. “Where’s Mama?” “Where did my legs go?” The two toddlers have been in the hospital for four months since they were brought there, battered and bleeding from an Israeli bombing, and had their legs amputated. It killed 25-year-old Shaima and injured the …

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Letters to the Editor: I’m a polio survivor. RFK Jr. shouldn’t have say in the nation’s health policies

LA Times

To the editor: I am a survivor of bulbar polio; I contracted it when I was 5 years old in 1946. I knew my children and countless others would never face what I went through, or face death or an iron lung. I can’t describe how angry I was to find out that an advisor to Robert Kennedy Jr. is …

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Karachi mob attacks polio vaccination team, 6 people arrested

ABP News

Karachi, Dec 20 : A polio vaccination team and their police escort were attacked on Friday by a mob during a vaccination drive in a densely populated area of Pakistan's Karachi city. “The polio team went to a house for administering the vaccine drops where the women present called two armed men and they attacked not only the health workers …

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Column: The latest evidence that putting RFK Jr. in charge of public health would be a disaster

LA Times

Polio came for 5-year-old Lynn Lane when she was visiting her grandmother in rural Indiana. “I’m not in a wheelchair yet,” said Lane, who uses leg braces and crutches, “but it’s heading that way.” The idea that anyone would question the polio vaccine now, she said, “makes me nuts.” Last week, the New York Times reported that in 2022, Robert …

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5 days, 15 hours ago

GOP senator: 'Everybody here has lost someone' — possibly from the COVID vaccine

Raw Story

A Republican senator launched into an anti-vaccine rant Tuesday when reporters asked about confirming noted health conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of Health and Human Services. There is no evidence that the modern vaccine schedule "overwhelms" or "overloads" a baby's immune system. The senator then went on to baselessly suggest that "everybody" in …

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‘This is a lie’: RFK Jr. criticized by experts, including Trump Surgeon General

Raw Story

Medical experts, including Donald Trump’s first-term Surgeon General, are questioning Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services and urging the Senate to uphold its "obligation" to conduct a thorough vetting process, following resurfaced remarks RFK Jr. made last year about the polio vaccine, suggesting it "killed many, many more people" than polio ever did. Responding …

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6 days, 12 hours ago

RFK reverses course on polio vaccine amid pressure from GOP

Raw Story

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. backed off on his long-spoken desire to revoke approval for the polio vaccine – a hint that he is attempting to calm concerns about his controversial vaccine positions after President-elect Donald Trump chose him to become the country’s next health secretary. Kennedy’s flip flop came Monday when he told reporters he was “all for” the polio …

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6 days, 14 hours ago

Key takeaways from Donald Trump's first post-election news conference

India Today

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday held a wide-ranging news conference in which he said he would preserve access to the polio vaccine but equivocated on other vaccines, pledged to look at bringing down the costs of pharmaceuticals and expressed doubts that his daughter-in-law might be Florida’s next senator. Here’s a look at some of what he touched on: Trump provides …

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6 days, 18 hours ago

Trump seemed to entertain a discredited theory on autism. This is what’s behind the rising rates

Associated Press

President-elect Donald Trump seemed to entertain the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism as he answered questions from journalists at a press conference Monday at his Mar-a-Lago club. Trump, seeming to respond to Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell’s defense of the polio vaccine, called himself “a big believer in it.” “You’re not going to lose the polio vaccine,” Trump said. …

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6 days, 18 hours ago

In his final days as Republican leader, Mitch McConnell tries to put pressure on Trump

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is now in his final …

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Amid rising polio cases, Pakistan begins last vaccination drive of the year

Firstpost

According to the World Health Organization, Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan remain the only two countries where the potentially fatal, paralyzing virus hasn’t been stopped Pakistan began on Monday its last nationwide vaccination campaign for the year to protect 45 million children from polio after a surge in new cases hampered efforts to stop the disease, officials said. According to the …

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Key lines from Trump’s first post-election news conference

CNN

CNN — President-elect Donald Trump, in his first news conference since his victory, downplayed concerns that his administration would revoke the polio vaccine’s authorization, suggested he could pardon New York City Mayor Eric Adams and said he will press Ukraine and Russia to end their war. We’re going to find out a lot.” But he also described Kennedy — the …

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Trump lauds ouster of Syria’s al-Assad as ‘unfriendly takeover’ by Turkiye

Al Jazeera

US president-elect gives wide-ranging foreign policy news conference weeks before taking office for second term. “I gave warning that if these hostages aren’t home by that date, all hell’s going to break out,” Trump said, repeating an earlier threat he made on social media about releasing the Israeli captives in Gaza in return for a ceasefire. “It’s just rubble,” Trump …

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The polio vaccine, Eric Adams and more media lawsuits: Donald Trump’s freewheeling Mar-a-Lago press conference

Politico

Trump also referenced ongoing lawsuits against publisher Simon & Schuster over the rights to recorded interviews he gave to journalist Bob Woodward, and the Pulitzer Prize board for reaffirming awards it gave to the New York Times and Washington Post for their reporting on ties between his 2016 campaign and Russia. “Something bad’s happening.” Eric Adams pardon Trump said he …

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

Huff Post

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 …

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Politics chat: Trump attends Army-Navy game; McConnell backs polio vaccine; mystery drones over New Jersey

NPR

Politics chat: Trump attends Army-Navy game; McConnell backs polio vaccine; mystery drones over New Jersey President-elect Donald Trump had two high-profile guests with him at the Army-Navy game yesterday: Pete Hegseth, his Secretary of Defense pick, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. And that's where we begin with NPR White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez. RASCOE: Franco, on Friday, Senator Mitch McConnell …

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Outcry after RFK Jr linked to effort to nix US approval for polio vaccine

Al Jazeera

Robert F Kennedy Jr, a vaccine sceptic, has sought to distance himself from his lawyer’s polio vaccine petition. In the statement, Kennedy’s camp attempted to distance the nominee from a New York Times report that his lawyer Aaron Siri had petitioned to suspend approval for the life-saving vaccine. “Mr Kennedy believes the Polio Vaccine should be available to the public …

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Trump nominees should ‘steer clear’ of undermining polio vaccine, McConnell says

LA Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, left, wears a bandage on his face and wrist after falling during a luncheon on Capitol Hill on Tuesday in Washington. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who had polio as a child, says any of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees seeking Senate confirmation should “steer clear” of efforts to discredit the polio vaccine. “Anyone seeking the …

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'Is insurance prepared to pay for polio?' MSNBC host angrily pounces on RFK Jr.

Raw Story

A discussion on MSNBC on how insurance companies create roadblocks to Americans seeking medical care swerved into reporting that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been tabbed by Donald Trump to oversee the Department of Health and Human Services, has a key adviser who wants the polio vaccine taken off the market. MSNBC's "The Weekend" invited on Columbia University Associate …

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

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Senate Republican leader and polio survivor Mitch McConnell on Friday condemned …

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'Specious disinformation': McConnell smacks down RFK Jr. aide's 'dangerous' effort

Raw Story

Outgoing Senate Leader Mitch McConnell on Friday condemned Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s aide Aaron Siri for his efforts to abolish the polio vaccine, The New York Times reported. Kennedy, an outspoken anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist who has also attacked medical consensus on issues ranging from municipal water fluoridation to 5G cell service, is Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health …

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Pakistan reports four new polio cases, year's tally rises to 63

New Indian Express

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has reported four new polio cases, bringing the crippling disease's total in the country for the year to 63--more than a ten-fold increase from last year's tally of just 6 cases. Despite repeated countrywide polio vaccination campaigns, two new cases were detected on Friday in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces each, the Dawn newspaper reported, citing a …

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RFK Jr. Working With Lawyer Who Pushed FDA To Revoke Polio Vaccine

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING A lawyer working with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to select top health officials for the next Trump administration has petitioned the federal government to revoke its approval of the lifesaving polio vaccine for children ― and he could have a prominent job in a Health and Human Services Department led by Kennedy. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell …

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'Stop messing with things': CNN conservative panics over RFK Jr. blowing it with senators

Raw Story

Conservative CNN contributor Shermichael Singleton implored Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Friday to extricate himself from the efforts of a key adviser to get the FDA to revoke the decades-old polio vaccine approval. Appearing with host John Berman, Singleton was asked about a report in the New York Times that RFK Jr's advisor, Aaron Siri, "is waging war against vaccines of …

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Gaza toddlers got the polio vaccine, then an Israeli bomb took their legs

Letters to the Editor: I’m a polio survivor. RFK Jr. shouldn’t have say in the nation’s health policies

Karachi mob attacks polio vaccination team, 6 people arrested

Column: The latest evidence that putting RFK Jr. in charge of public health would be a disaster

GOP senator: 'Everybody here has lost someone' — possibly from the COVID vaccine

‘This is a lie’: RFK Jr. criticized by experts, including Trump Surgeon General

RFK reverses course on polio vaccine amid pressure from GOP

Key takeaways from Donald Trump's first post-election news conference

Trump seemed to entertain a discredited theory on autism. This is what’s behind the rising rates

In his final days as Republican leader, Mitch McConnell tries to put pressure on Trump

Amid rising polio cases, Pakistan begins last vaccination drive of the year

Key lines from Trump’s first post-election news conference

Trump lauds ouster of Syria’s al-Assad as ‘unfriendly takeover’ by Turkiye

The polio vaccine, Eric Adams and more media lawsuits: Donald Trump’s freewheeling Mar-a-Lago press conference

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

Politics chat: Trump attends Army-Navy game; McConnell backs polio vaccine; mystery drones over New Jersey

Outcry after RFK Jr linked to effort to nix US approval for polio vaccine

Trump nominees should ‘steer clear’ of undermining polio vaccine, McConnell says

'Is insurance prepared to pay for polio?' MSNBC host angrily pounces on RFK Jr.

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

'Specious disinformation': McConnell smacks down RFK Jr. aide's 'dangerous' effort

Pakistan reports four new polio cases, year's tally rises to 63

RFK Jr. Working With Lawyer Who Pushed FDA To Revoke Polio Vaccine

'Stop messing with things': CNN conservative panics over RFK Jr. blowing it with senators