Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who leads the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said a person’s right to refuse a vaccine outweighed concerns about illness or death from infectious diseases.

This approach means a lot of dead and paralyzed kids. You can eliminate a lot of infectious disease if everybody who can gets vaccinated. You can’t when 10% of the population refuses.

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    Mid terms won’t save us from this. This comes from decades of right wing propaganda. There’s no rolling this back until we start reprogramming them.

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      Yeah, ultimately it means changing the national media diet. That’s going to mean running left-of-center mass media and gaining control over social media feed ranking.