Wie die Impfagenda von Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ein Wiederaufleben tödlicher Kinderplagen birgt

Hi r/EverythingScience:

The success of the U.S. vaccination system has long depended on two fundamental pillars: parents trusting in vaccines and children having access to them.

Under RFK Jr., both are in peril.

The HHS secretary is considering changes that could prompt the few companies that make vaccines for American kids to abandon the U.S. market. He’s also pulled the government’s $1.6 billion pledge to the aid group that provides shots for the world’s poorest children. 

ProPublica reviewed hundreds of studies on vaccines and outbreaks of the diseases they prevent and interviewed more than three dozen people who have worked on U.S. immunization programs here and abroad, dating back to the days of smallpox.

They shared a pit-of-the-stomach dread that American children will end up fighting for their lives against infections that have long been preventable. History has shown that forgotten plagues can come roaring back — killing and maiming children — when trust in or access to vaccines falters.

“I think there always was a worst-case scenario,” said Dr. Melinda Wharton, who spent more than three decades leading immunization programs at the CDC. “I don’t think I imagined it could or would be this bad.”

**Read our full investigation:** [https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues](https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues)

HHS declined to make Kennedy available for an interview. HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said that the agency has not limited access to or insurance coverage for vaccines. “Secretary Kennedy believes that trust is rebuilt through an open review of safety data, the willingness to ask the hard questions, and ensuring the American people have all emerging information as soon as we know it,” he said.

I guess we’ll have overpopulation fixed then?