{"id":3635,"date":"2024-12-14T05:25:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T05:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mcconnell-hits-back-at-polio-vaccine-skeptics-dangerous-2\/"},"modified":"2024-12-14T05:25:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T05:25:51","slug":"mcconnell-hits-back-at-polio-vaccine-skeptics-dangerous-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mcconnell-hits-back-at-polio-vaccine-skeptics-dangerous-2\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell hits back at polio vaccine skeptics: \u2018Dangerous\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell sharply criticized associates of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump&rsquo;s pick to lead the Health and Human Services Department, for seeking to rescind approval of the polio vaccine. McConnell, a polio survivor, said in a statement that &ldquo;efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed &mdash; they&rsquo;re dangerous.&rdquo; In a Friday report&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/13\/congress\/mcconnell-slams-polio-vaccine-skeptics-00194353\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell sharply criticized associates of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump&rsquo;s pick to lead the Health and Human Services Department, for seeking to rescind approval of the polio vaccine. McConnell, a polio survivor, said in a statement that &ldquo;efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}