Mia Farrow Hits RFK Jr. With 'Terrifying' Memory Of Polio Experience: 'We Cannot Go Back'
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The actor and polio survivor called out a "nightmare" report on Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
Mia Farrow took to social media on Friday to slam a “nightmare” report that a lawyer working with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services — has pushed for the federal government to revoke its approval of the lifesaving polio vaccine for children.
“No RFK Jr. we cannot go back to this. # polio,” wrote the actor and polio survivor alongside a photo of leg braces used by her late adopted son Thaddeus Farrow, who was paralyzed from the waist down after contracting the disease.
She continued, “I too had polio as a child- one year before the vaccine. Thanks to ghe vaccine, kids don’t have to go through that nightmare today.”
The actor and activist — who has worked on polio vaccination campaigns and looked to raise awareness for the disease — also attached a photo of children in iron lung respirators at California’s Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in the 1950s.
Mia Farrow’s criticism arrived after The New York Times revealed that Aaron Siri is helping Kennedy select top health officials for the president-elect’s incoming administration.