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WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., a polio survivor, responded critically to a report in The New York Times that a key lawyer and longtime adviser to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to revoke the approval of the polio vaccine.
In his statement, McConnell makes it clear he will fight to protect access to the polio vaccine. “I have never flinched from confronting specious disinformation that threatens the advance of lifesaving medical progress, and I will not today.” Despite his active campaign against vaccines, in an interview with NBC News before he was announced as Trump’s pick at HHS, Kennedy said he would not seek to “take away anybody’s vaccines.
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