An alarming decline in childhood vaccination rates, resulting from anti-science rhetoric, likely means a resurgence of deadly preventable diseases, and the Today in Ohio podcast crew suggests that only the firing of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will restore sane decision making to health policy.

Lisa Garvin noted that vaccination rates among kindergarteners in Ohio has dropped 4.5 percent since the pandemic, from 89.9 percent in 2019 to 85.4 percent now. The decline represents thousands of Ohio children now vulnerable to diseases that had been largely controlled through routine immunization—a public health achievement that the podcast hosts fear is being undermined by politically motivated misinformation.

“Our child mortality rate’s going to go up in America,” said Chris Quinn. “There’s no

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