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Trump defends polio vaccines, rejects school vaccine mandates

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President-elect Donald Trump appeared to temper Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s long-standing controversial views on vaccines Monday .

Trump defended the polio vaccine, but he didn’t go so far as to support vaccine mandates in schools.

“I’m a big believer in it, and I think everything should be looked at,” Trump said of Kennedy 's nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services .