> Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic who may become the secretary of health and human services, has said the idea that vaccination has nearly eradicated polio is “a mythology.”
> The virus that paralyzed the young man had been circulating for months, and it was later detected in the sewage of multiple New York counties with vaccination rates hovering around 60 percent, prompting the state to declare an emergency.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9577438/
> On July 21, 2022, the USA witnessed the first case of poliomyelitis after 3 decades of its eradication.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/health/polio-vaccine-outb...
> Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic who may become the secretary of health and human services, has said the idea that vaccination has nearly eradicated polio is “a mythology.”
> The virus that paralyzed the young man had been circulating for months, and it was later detected in the sewage of multiple New York counties with vaccination rates hovering around 60 percent, prompting the state to declare an emergency.
My apologies, I didn't realize RFK was enacting policy in 2022.
RFK has been a prominent voice in the anti-vax world for many years.
Including helping worsen a measles outbreak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Samoa_measles_outbreak
Not the sort of person you want to promote to policy decisions, where he can do more damage.