With current discussion concerning Robert Kennedy Jr. for secretary of Health and Human Services, which should be considered an oxymoron, one has to understand the significance of vaccines and science.
Specifically, since RFK Jr. ally, Aaron Siri, an attorney who worked on his presidential campaign, petitioned the FDA to revoke approval of the polio vaccine. Siri and Kennedy have a long history together as anti-vaccine enthusiasts. Defying science and the world view concerning this matter.
The science around “vaccines” is quite clear and irrefutable! In a recent issue of “Scientific American” — in an article titled, “The Staggering Success of Vaccines” — Tara Healle writes, a May study in the “Lancet” stated, “More than any other development, vaccines have advanced health equity around the world. They have averted 154 million deaths over the past 50 years, a life saved every 10 seconds or six lives every minute.” She goes on by stating that vaccines have cut infant mortality by 40% and that throughout history vaccines have saved more lives than almost any other intervention.
This same study stated, “We say vaccines are one of humanity’s great achievements in terms of having furthered the lifespan and life quality for humanity in the past 50 years.” And Kennedy’s attorney, Siri, has the audacity and disregard to challenge the world’s scientists and doctors by petitioning the FDA to suspend approval for infants and toddlers until a properly controlled and properly powered double-blind trial of sufficient duration is conducted? Despite the fact the polio vaccine has been in use in the U.S. since 1955 and is deemed safe and effective since that time? Also, despite the fact that it has eliminated natural transmission of polio in the U.S. since 1979?
Also, I would like to illuminate and applaud Kimball Shinkoskey on a recent letter published in The Tribune, “Trump’s got schools that mandate vaccines in the crosshairs,” which provides specific numbers to the success of vaccines.
Robert Hoff, Taylorsville
