A lawyer associated with President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the top health agency has filed a petition with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to revoke approval of the polio vaccine used in the United States. The lawyer, Aaron Siri, submitted the petition in 2022 on behalf of the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), a nonprofit organization that questions the safety of vaccines and vaccine mandates.
Siri has been collaborating closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic and Trump's choice to head the US Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy's potential role as the head of HHS, which requires Senate confirmation, could involve overseeing the FDA and potentially intervening in the petition review process.
