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How Measles, Whooping Cough, and Worse Could Roar Back on RFK Jr.’s Watch

KFF Health News

“It is a fantasy to think we can lower vaccination rates and herd immunity in the U.S. “The genie is out of the bottle, and you can’t put it back in,” said Rekha Lakshmanan, chief strategy officer at the Immunization Partnership in Texas. “One in 3,000 kids who gets measles is going to die. .”