Americans tend to believe Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 's policies are making vaccines less available rather than more available. But the large majority of Americans feels government policy ought to make vaccines more available if people want them.

A sizable third haven't heard or aren't sure.

Also, there's a wide view that government policy should encourage parents to vaccinate their children for diseases like measles, mumps and rubella, more specifically. Only a scant few think the government ought to discourage that.

Even as vaccines — particularly COVID vaccines — have sometimes been a political issue, this view on encouraging children's vaccinations is true across party lines for the majority of Democrats, Republicans and independents. (That s

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