{"id":7652,"date":"2024-12-15T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7652"},"modified":"2024-12-15T21:00:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T02:00:50","slug":"trump-nominees-should-steer-clear-of-undermining-polio-vaccine-mcconnell-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/trump-nominees-should-steer-clear-of-undermining-polio-vaccine-mcconnell-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump nominees should \u2018steer clear\u2019 of undermining polio vaccine, McConnell says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who had polio as a child, says any of President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s nominees seeking Senate confirmation should \u201csteer clear\u201d of efforts to discredit the polio vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEfforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed \u2014 they\u2019re dangerous,\u201d McConnell said in a statement Friday. \u201cAnyone seeking the Senate\u2019s consent to serve in the incoming Administration would do well to steer clear of even the appearance of association with such efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 82-year-old lawmaker\u2019s statement appeared to be directed at Trump\u2019s pick for health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., after a report that one of his advisers filed a petition to revoke approval for the polio vaccine in 2022. That vaccine is widely considered to have halted the disease in most parts of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who had polio as a child, says any of President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s nominees seeking Senate confirmation should \u201csteer clear\u201d of efforts to discredit the polio vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEfforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed \u2014 they\u2019re dangerous,\u201d McConnell said in a statement Friday. \u201cAnyone seeking the Senate\u2019s consent to serve in the incoming Administration would do well to steer clear of even the appearance of association with such efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 82-year-old lawmaker\u2019s statement appeared to be directed at Trump\u2019s pick for health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., after a report that one of his advisers filed a petition to revoke approval for the polio vaccine in 2022. That vaccine is widely considered to have halted the disease in most parts of the world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/trump-nominees-should-steer-clear-of-undermining-polio-vaccine-mcconnell-says\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump nominees should \u2018steer clear\u2019 of undermining polio vaccine, McConnell says<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[375,81,396,127,525,18,387,309,398,14,130,51,15],"class_list":["post-7652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-anti-vaccine-movement","tag-anti-vaxxers","tag-antisemitism","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-covid-denial","tag-covid-19","tag-polio","tag-pro-virus-policies","tag-racism","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-science-denial","tag-united-states","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7654,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652\/revisions\/7654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}