Opinion
From polio to COVID: Why Kennedy is unfit for HHS
As a polio survivor, I believe that lethal diseases will recur if RFK Jr. is the next secretary of Health and Human Services.
The New York Times24d
As Polio Survivors Watch Kennedy Confirmation, All Eyes Are on McConnell
Caplan, a bioethicist at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine, who was infected when he was 5, recalls the children he befriended on the polio ward, some of whom went “down to the ...
Opinion
RFK Jr. running Health and Human Services will lead to a calamity
Putting someone in charge of our federal health programs who is seemingly indifferent to the millions of lives saved by vaccines would be a disaster.
The Washington Post29d
My mother had polio. We thought it was gone for good.
“It is very hard to see her struggling to walk.” The polio virus spreads through contaminated drinking water. It enters at the mouth, migrates to the tonsils and then the gut. Here, the immune ...
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Francis Ford Coppola Slams 'Absurd' Idea Trump Would 'Reverse Course' on Vaccines, Recalls 'Horror' of 10-Day Polio Ward Stay
Kennedy Jr. to his cabinet, filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola opened up about his childhood experience with polio and the "horror" of spending 10 days isolated in a health ward with "screaming kids." ...
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Mia Farrow Hits RFK Jr. With 'Terrifying' Memory Of Polio Experience: 'We Cannot Go Back'
Mia Farrow took to social media on Friday to slam a “nightmare” report that a lawyer working with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Health and Human ...
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Why We Need to Remember the Physical Effects of Polio
She is the author of the book The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care. Last month it was reported that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawyer ...