Vaccine Policy Shake-Ups Risk Rekindling Historic Plagues
ProPublica reports that Kennedy’s interventions in U.S. vaccine policy—replacing advisers with vaccine skeptics, trimming the childhood immunization schedule, and cutting global vaccination funding—could erode trust and access, risking a revival of preventable diseases. The piece links measles outbreaks at home to these shifts and recalls Hib meningitis, rubella congenital syndrome, and diphtheria resurfacing abroad when vaccination coverage falters; it warns that if makers withdraw from the U.S. market or the vaccine-injury compensation system weakens, Americans could lose access to lifesaving shots despite proven safety.
