Vaccine opposition could spread

Earlier this week, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., announced that the U.S. intends to withhold funding from Gavi, the organization that works to bring vaccines to low-income countries. With this move, Rivka Galchen argues, the U.S. may be doing more than simply failing to aid global vaccination efforts. “The domestic stoking of anti-vaccine sentiment is itself infectious,” she writes. And we’re now on the precipice of a surge in preventable diseases. Read the story