Posted on 12/13/2024 11:58:44 AM PST by Miami Rebel
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s personal attorney previously lobbied the Food and Drug Administration to revoke the approval of the polio vaccine, highlighting an influential Kennedy ally who, sources tell ABC News, has been helping interview candidates for top health jobs in the incoming Trump administration.
Aaron Siri, a partner at the law firm Siri & Glimstad, has long fought against the widespread prevalence of vaccines. He has also filed petitions seeking to pause the distribution of other vaccines, including Hepatitis B, and to revoke the emergency use authorization of COVID-19 vaccines.
The polio petition was made on behalf of one of Siri's clients, the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), a group founded by Del Bigtree, another close Kennedy ally who also has been involved in health-related transition matters, according to sources.
"Petitioner requests that the FDA withdraw or suspend the approval for [the polio vaccine] for infants, toddlers, and children until a properly controlled and properly powered double-blind trial of sufficient duration is conducted to assess the safety of this product," Siri wrote.
The polio vaccine available in the United States is recommended for children and three doses offer at least 99% protection against severe disease, including paralysis, according to the CDC. Side effects are usually mild and go away on their own, the agency notes, and the vaccine has not been known to cause serious problems.
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False.
“There were four deaths among children who received placebo; none among the vaccinated. In observed areas there were 11 fatalities; none among children receiving the vaccine.
“Only one child who had been inoculated with the vaccine died of polio, and this death followed a tonsillectomy two days after the second injection of the vaccine in an area where polio was already prevalent.”
Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., director of the Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center at the University of Michigan School of Public Health
April 12, 1955
Dr. Francis announced that news after two years of field trials in which over 1,800,000 children participated. Jonas Salk, inventor of the vaccine, refused to patent it and thereby sacrificed billions in profits. zin 1952 alone there had been 57,879 cases and 3,145 deaths from polio in the US. Since 1980 there have been two deaths and less than twenty cases and those were unvaccinated children.
THIS WAS OVER 69 YEARS AGO.
Well!....if ABC’s finest Will McDuffie, Katherine Faulders, Anne Flaherty, and Olivia Rubin journaled it, its got to be....
More Swamp SOW shud.
Shud?
That wet slurry that ooshes up between their hooves as they walk. They also roll in it and coat themselves.
A mixture of shit and mud.....shud.
Prior to the early 20th century, the incidence of polio was so low that it wasn’t even a health concern.
Then it exploded. No one knows why, and no one has studied it scientifically (there is plenty of speculation, including Ag chemicals). All that happened was the development of the Salk vaccine and the rest is history.
But don’t try debating that with vax adherents (i.e., don’t question the vax, just bend over).
When there were little ones in my family (20 years ago), I think there was a live virus vaccine and dead virus vaccine version.
Do you have any statistics on negligent vascular injections of the polio vaccine? I can’t find any.
If there’s a better transmission method THAT IS STILL EFFECTIVE, than it should be pursued. But removing a life-saving vaccine in its current form is bone-headed. I’m old enough to know kids who were condemned to iron lungs. Just this year, Paul Alexander, the man longest to live in an iron lung, died at age 78. He contracted polio at age 6 in 1952 and spent his remaining 72 years in one.
Well, we sure as hell know what happens without the polio vaccine. Or at least should look it up.
That’s like saying we should temporarily ban use of cars because Model T’s were unsafe.
Yeah, people like my parents and grandparents were terrified of polio, for good reason.
In the end, risks on both sides must be considered. If for any individual, the vaccine has risk, but the disease is riskier, the vaccine is the way to go
Maybe 10 years ago, I was talking with a client who was using a walker. Said he missed the Salk Vaccine by 6 months.
Inaccurate.
From Wikipedia (with citations to be found on that page):
Poliomyelitis has existed for thousands of years, with depictions of the disease in ancient art.[1] The disease was first recognized as a distinct condition by the English physician Michael Underwood in 1789,[1][7] and the virus that causes it was first identified in 1909 by the Austrian immunologist Karl Landsteiner.[8][9] Major outbreaks started to occur in the late 19th century in Europe and the United States,[1] and in the 20th century, it became one of the most worrying childhood diseases.[10] Following the introduction of polio vaccines in the 1950s, polio incidence declined rapidly.[1] As of October 2023, only Pakistan and Afghanistan remain endemic for wild poliovirus (WPV).[11]
As to your supposition that it “exploded,” you offer no evidence. My guess is that like a lot of diseases prior to the 20th century there was no tracking and, for that matter, diseases were often incorrectly categorized. Children who died of polio were just past of a large cadre of children who died before at tender ages.
But...but....but...regardless of the causation and prevalence of the disease, why would we chuck a proven preventative? Do you suppose that the US and the rest of the world will somehow revert to a golden Pre-Polio Age if we re-jigger Ag chemicals?
In addition, there is good reason to believe that the AIDS epidemic started due to mass polio vaccination in Africa with an injected vaccine made locally using chimpanzee kidney cells that had the AIDS virus. Again, the extent of the lying, dishonesty, and indifference by the medical establishment on the issue is breath-taking.
Our trust in modern medicine should be tempered with recognition of its errors, pride, conflicts of interest, and dishonesty that crop up again and again. Doctors, medical scientists, and the pharmaceutical industry do essential work but they ought not to be presumed saintly or otherwise immune to human failings.
“Well, we sure as hell know what happens without the polio vaccine.”
Many people don’t. The dangers of polio are part of ancient history to many folks, and therefore the danger doesn’t exit.
Two of my cousins had it. One has since died and the other has Dementia.
We had the March of Dimes campaigns. We sold salt for 10 cents and the Dime went into a slot on a little card. My brother and I sold hundreds of boxes and hauled the boxes in his Flyer wagon. We were spurred by a friend of his who had polio.
Thanks for the info.
Hubs’ grandma had polio as a child and struggled with the after effects her whole life. I would not wish that on any child.
Well, no. It was a concern in the last 1800s as well.
No one knows why, and no one has studied it scientifically
Yes, they do and yes, they did.
This is very misleading.
The petition is to revoke one of the two Sanofi vaccines. There are four manufacturers who supply polio vaccines to the US market.
The headline and the text appear to claim that RFK wants to remove polio vaccine from the US market - when what they want is the Sanofi vaccine which is petitioned to meet US requirements.
I got ONE DOSE of Polio VAccine-—ON A SUGAR CUBE.
People have been taking it for … 70 years? What exactly is it you want to test?
The original polio vaccine, that was a shot, had a number of problems and was not effective, that was the Dr. Salk version I think. Dr. Sabin came out with an Oral medication vaccine that did work very well. So yes there have been different variations of the Polio Vaccine.
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