Top CDC vaccine adviser questions need for polio shot, other longstanding recommendations

[douglas9]

The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel charted a new course for the committee in a podcast released Thursday — suggesting the public might want to reconsider the use of polio vaccines, arguing individual freedoms should be a north star of the panel, and pointing to the Covid pandemic as key to his thinking on health policy.

Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who became chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in December, also downplayed established science on vaccines during an interview for the podcast and suggested policy goals, not new research, were the driving force behind changing recommendations in recent months.

In a wide-ranging interview with the podcast “Why Should I Trust You?”, Milhoan painted a more detailed picture of the committee’s strategy than has been previously known as it moves to weigh recommendations for vaccines given to children and pregnant people.

When asked why the committee had revised existing recommendations, including delaying the age by which some children are immunized for hepatitis B, Milhoan said plainly: “Yeah, because we were concerned about mandates, and mandates have really harmed and increased hesitancy.”

https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/vaccine-policy-adviser-kirk-milhoan-individual-rights-trump-public-health/

[mwmisses4289]

1. No idgit, it's people like you who have created

the ct culture that has created vaccine hesitancy. Your pic shows you to have been old enough that your parents probably were getting you vaccinated with every vaccine that came out, because they probably knew someone or knew of someone who had polio, whooping cough, measles, etc., and the lasting devastating issues those diseases have on people.
You claim to be a doctor. A pediatric cardiologist. Then start being one!

[Vinca]

2. I knew this would happen at some point. This so-called cardiologist should have his license taken away.

Make iron lungs great again????? One of my childhood memories is about making yarn leg braces for my Tiny Tears doll when I was about 4 or 5. I must have seen something on the old black and white television to have been aware of it because this was long before the Salk vaccine came on the scene.