Vaccines don’t save lives. Vaccinations do. And every dollar spent on routine immunization in the U.S. is estimated to save $11, not to mention that vaccinations have prevented countless deaths and suffering.
Yet U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent decades spreading false warnings about the danger of vaccines, including their purported association with autism, a thoroughly debunked claim. The administration has also taken a series of deeply worrisome actions to halt vaccine research, cancel vaccine clinics, and remove vaccine information from government websites.
The stakes are too high for us to sit back and watch. We cannot allow vaccine-preventable conditions, such as measles and whooping cough, to become regularly occurring outbreaks here in the U.S. again, causing needless suffering and death.
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