To the editor: I learn with concern the opinions of anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now the U.S. secretary of Well being and Human Providers. I’m 80 and lived by means of the event of the early polio vaccine. I’ve a 91-year-old lifelong pal who has shared vivid reminiscences of contracting polio as a toddler along with her twin brother.
My pal was positioned in a hospital isolation unit. She remembers that whereas there, her father would come to her window each day. She would wrestle to face on the mattress and wave so her father might see she was nonetheless alive. She had no information about her brother.
Lastly she recovered sufficient to go residence. She remembers being cautious to not stumble. She didn’t need her father to fret about her.
On the automotive, her father stated that her brother couldn’t come residence as a result of he died within the iron lung. She says that all through her childhood, she lived with the load of her brother’s loss and her mother and father’ countless grief.
Right now, we have now efficient vaccines. Our youngsters should not have to die this fashion.
Ann Duran, San Clemente
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To the editor: In a affirmation listening to for Kennedy, Sen. Invoice Cassidy (R-La.), a doctor, expressed grave considerations about RFK Jr.’s lengthy historical past of spreading vaccine conspiracy theories. That in fact didn’t forestall Cassidy from voting to make Kennedy the top of the company that regulates vaccines.
Now, the senator’s residence state has determined to cease selling mass vaccination within the title of medical freedom. And once more, he has grave considerations.
When the inevitable outbreaks of measles, mumps, whooping cough and different illnesses all of us thought had been left prior to now happen, I’m positive Cassidy will once more categorical grave concern. However it is going to be too late then.
Janet Cerswell, Rancho Cucamonga
