Attorney for RFK Jr. petitioned FDA to repeal polio vaccine approval

Aaron Siri, a lawyer tied to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., filed requests in 2022 to have the Food and Drug Administration remove approval for the polio vaccine, claiming it "does not prevent intestinal infection and therefore does not prevent poliovirus transmission."

The New York Times was the first to uncover Siri's request.

Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic, was nominated to be the Trump administration's head of the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the FDA.

Siri's petition included letters of support from those also opposing the authorization of the vaccine.

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