McConnell defends polio vaccine after revelation that RFK Jr.
WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., a polio survivor, responded critically Friday to a report in The New York Times that a key lawyer and longtime adviser to Robert...
Kennedy says he’s ‘all for’ polio vaccine as GOP senators raise ...
Dec 16, 2024 · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is trying to tamp down concerns about his history of vaccine skepticism as he meets with GOP senators who will vote on whether to confirm him as President-elect Donald...
RFK Jr. tries to reassure senators he's 'all for the polio vaccine ...
Dec 17, 2024 · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. clarified Monday during his rounds with GOP senators that he supports the polio vaccine amid revelations that one of his allies had filed a 2022 petition to yank...
McConnell warns RFK Jr. to steer clear of the polio vaccine
Dec 14, 2024 · Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell gave a stern warning to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after a report highlighted how one of Kennedy's associates had sought to rescind approval for a polio...
Key GOP senators want public commitments from RFK Jr. on …
3 days ago · He told reporters on Capitol Hill in December that he is “all for” the polio vaccine following reports that a lawyer affiliated with Kennedy has ... On vaccines, Republican Sen. Markwayne ...
Kennedy’s lawyer has asked the FDA to revoke its approval of the polio …
Dec 13, 2024 · President-elect Donald Trump has praised the polio vaccine as the “greatest thing,” but a lawyer affiliated with Trump’s pick to lead the country’s top health agency has petitioned the US Food...
Mitch McConnell warns RFK Jr. against effort to undermine polio vaccines
Dec 14, 2024 · In a 2023 letter responding to the polio petition, the agency's top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, wrote that the FDA "has been unable to reach a decision on your petition because it raises...
McConnell Defends Polio Vaccine, an Apparent Warning to …
Dec 13, 2024 · Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader and a survivor of polio, issued a pointed statement in support of the polio vaccine on Friday, hours after The New York Times reported that the...
Two Republican senators clash over the facts about vaccines.
10 hours ago · He was referring to the period from 1955 to 1963, when some of the polio vaccine was contaminated with a virus that came from the monkey cell cultures used to produce the vaccine.
Mitch McConnell had polio as a child. It could cloud RFK Jr.’s ...
17 hours ago · The first polio vaccine was pronounced “safe, effective and potent” more than a decade after McConnell’s encounter with the disease — and at a time when polio killed or paralyzed more than ...