N ew data from the CDC suggests a grim back-to-school tradition emerging: in 2024, kindergarten vaccination rates declined for the fifth consecutive year . Meanwhile, vaccine exemptions reached a record high.

These statistics became all the more disturbing last fall when, shortly after 286,000 children began their educations without proof of full immunity against measles, a man who has bragged about never getting a flu shot was re-elected to the presidency. Since then, the US has contended with its largest measles outbreak in three decades , while the leaders who should be stamping out this crisis are instead fanning the flames.

In just eight months, Trump and Robert F Kennedy Jr , secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, have made every effort to undermine on

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