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Polio Survivor Francis Coppola Urges Caution As Vax Skeptics Take Posts In Trump Administration


Polio Survivor Francis Coppola Urges Caution As Vax Skeptics Take Posts In Trump Administration

This week, he’s doing interviews as the film opens in South American markets, but he took time out to weigh in on a movement gaining traction, to limit vaccines as Donald Trump prepares to reenter the White House. The U.S. gross on Megalopolis was low for the $100 million + of his own money he spent making the film, but Coppola said the experience was largely satisfying – save for a spate of negative stories he believes were attempts to sabotage him. I asked Coppola to go back to the scariest time in his life, as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell did in a recent interview meant to counter any chance that public confidence in the polio vaccine might be undermined.

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