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    Michael Hiltzik: Trump and RFK Jr. want to make the world safe again for polio and measles. You should be terrified

    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Mar 06, 2024 6 minutes
    Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks during a Get Out the Vote Rally March 2, 2024, in Richmond, Virginia.

    What are the chances that the noted anti-vaxxers Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would make common cause to undermine Americans' health in their pursuit for the presidency?

    It didn't take much hindsight to say the answer is 100%. But there's no need to speculate any longer — not since this weekend, when Trump and Kennedy both associated themselves with policies that would bring vaccine-preventable diseases such as polio back to the United States.

    We've already seen that the embrace of pernicious anti-vaccination claptrap by unscrupulous politicians and government officials has had detectable impacts on public health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now reporting 41 cases of measles, for which a vaccine has been available since 1963, in 16 states.

    That includes 10 cases in Florida, where public health comes under the jurisdiction of Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, a leading quack and established anti-vaccine activist.

    Resistance or refusal of COVID vaccination, plainly due to anti-vaccine propaganda, has kept the.

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