CDC cuts life-saving childhood vaccines from its schedule. Vaccination rates were already plunging

Medical specialists and public health experts expect more children will be left unprotected given policies advanced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist who is rolling back government vaccine policies and recommendations.

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The nation currently is experiencing its highest annual measles case tally in at least 33 years, a stunning reversal. In South Carolina this month, a measles outbreak topped 175 cases, mostly among unvaccinated individuals, with hundreds quarantined. The resurgence of measles is seen by doctors and public health experts as a harbinger of the return of other deadly, vaccine-preventable illnesses, like whooping cough, which has killed three children in Kentucky in the past 12 months.

Children’s Health Defense CEO Mary Holland celebrated declining kindergarten vaccine rates in an interview, crediting covid with driving the nation’s growing skepticism of government recommendations and mandates. “It is logical that families are starting to say, you know, I don’t trust these people,” she said.

Public health experts acknowledge that anti-vaccine forces have been effective in driving down vaccine rates.

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