<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) appeared to warn President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., this week over a lawyer who is helping him select federal health officials for the incoming administration.</p>
<p>The warning from McConnell comes just weeks before Kennedy will undergo confirmation hearings in which he will have to win over the support of U.S. senators to lead the department.</p>
<p>Aaron Siri, the lawyer helping Kennedy, petitioned the federal government in 2022 to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/health/aaron-siri-rfk-jr-vaccines.html">reported</a>.</p>
<p>McConnell, a polio survivor, made the warning over the polio vaccine after the report was published but did not mention Kennedy by name.</p>
<p>&#8220;Like millions of families before them, my parents knew the pain and fear of watching their child struggle with the life-altering diagnosis of polio,&#8221; McConnell said. &#8220;From the age of two, normal life without paralysis was only possible for me because of the miraculous combination of modern medicine and a mother’s love. But for millions who came after me, the real miracle was the saving power of the polio vaccine.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;For decades, I have been proud to work with devoted advocates – from Rotary International to the Gates Foundation – and use my platform in public life to champion the pursuit of cures for further generations,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I have never flinched from confronting specious disinformation that threatens the advance of lifesaving medical progress, and I will not today.&#8221;</p>
<p>The 82-year-old senator said that the polio vaccine saved &#8220;millions of lives and held out the promise of eradicating a terrible disease.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed – they’re dangerous,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;Anyone seeking the Senate’s consent to serve in the incoming Administration would do well to steer clear of even the appearance of association with such efforts.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Mitch McConnell, polio survivor, warns RFK Jr. on the polio vaccine — without mentioning his name.</p>
<p>Full Statement from Leader McConnell:</p>
<p>“Like millions of families before them, my parents knew the pain and fear of watching their child struggle with the life-altering diagnosis…</p>
<p>— Manu Raju (@mkraju) <a href="https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1867693869241946589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2024</a></p></blockquote>

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