Bottom headline: New York Times, 1/29/2026
Maggie Astor reports:
Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has removed immunizations against six diseases from its routine childhood recommendations. The doctor Mr. Kennedy recently appointed to lead an influential vaccine advisory panel has suggested that vaccines against measles and polio should be optional. These shifts threaten to accelerate a decline in vaccination rates and an increase in infections. Measles is on the rise. Whooping cough surged last year, too.
The chances of contracting those diseases remain low in most of the country, and vaccines are still available and broadly covered by insurance. But the heightened risk has frightened some parents into action.
By the time Retiring Guy's dad was born in 1915, six of his cousins had already died very young from childhood diseases now preventable with vaccines.
This is what turning back the clock looks like.
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