“I went to grammar school with kids—who came to the same grammar school classroom I sat in—who were wearing braces and sticks to carry them through the day, to walk. They had polio. The idea that we’re going to eliminate the Salk vaccine—and take a look at vaccines that all infants and children get to prevent measles and other really radical diseases that could cause harm to them—the idea that we’re talking about eliminating them based upon the quackery of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—and it is quackery. And he is a very smart guy and he ought to know better, but he clearly doesn’t know better. But the idea that we’re still seriously talking about eliminating vaccines from any children is almost beyond belief,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during this Morning Joe conversation with Jonathan Lemire following a New York Times report that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawyer Aaron Siri has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.
Dec 13, 2024
