In Trump’s America, Vaccination Rates are Declining and Measles Is Spreading

New CDC data suggest that the gloomy back tradition: in 2024 the level of vaccination in kindergarten decreased on fifth year in a row. Meanwhile, the vaccine exceptions have reached a record high.

These statistics became the more disturbing last fall when soon after 286 000 children began his education without evidence of complete immunity against measles, a man who has boasts to never earn the flu was re -elected to the presidency. Since then, the US has fought with their the greatest outbreak of measles in three decadesWhile the leaders who need to knock out this crisis instead inflate the flames. In just eight months Trump and Robert F. Kennedy -Younger.The secretary of the Ministry of Health and Human Services has made every effort to undermine one of the main civilizational success of the 20th century – our public health infrastructure. By doing this, they run the risk of threatening millions and starting a stool of distrust, which could be needed for decades.

As usual, the Trump administration position on vaccines is motivated by less sincere populism and more personal income. Before Kennedy started his own presidential campaign on the platform “make America healthy”, he deserved 20 000 dollars each week He painted a non -profit organization dedicated to the development of the vaccine skepticism. Now in the office he fired everything CDC Advisory Panel and replaced it with the Ragtag crew, half of which there is Never published reviewed research on vaccines. Just last week Kennedy canceled 500 million dollars of federal financing For mRNA vaccines that prevented 14 million deaths During the Covid-19 pandemic. And he made these backs at the time Saving the financial share In current lawsuits against the vaccine manufacturer.

All the while the US has seen more than 1300 measles cases And three deaths this year. In return Kennedy takes turns approved and undermined The most effective prevention method is general immunization.

Financing Expanded Science, and Trump has reduced research support to 35-year-old Nadir. At the National Institute of Health, 1800 grants were stopped and this is a step that government accounting office considered illegal. The administration also continues to freeze grants at universities over the war culture such as Dei, including 339 million dollars in ucla and 2.2 billion dollars in Harvard. So it’s not surprising that 75 percent of American scientists Interviewed by magazine Nature They consider the possibility of leaving a country that causes the prospect of a lost generation of American talents and innovative rescue.

At the international level, thoughtless and thoughtless Trump budget cuts cause devastation. Administration disassembled USAIDOne of the most successful preventive diseases in history. By doing this, it has canceled the programs that vaccinated more than 800 million children Against fatalities such as malaria. Researchers found this 300,000 people have already died C -of these cuts that may lead to another 14 million deaths that can be prevented Over the next five years – all to expose the agency that ruled equivalent with 4 percent Annual National Defense budget.

Back in the US, medical associations, local officials and individual doctors have Cooperation on the purchase of vaccines Directly from manufacturers and lobbying insurance companies to continue to cover the costs of these shots. Their efforts reflect the test strategy to counteract insufficient immunization. To the current outbreak Ronald Reagan – an era that caused public health health more widespread pandemicOf the 27,000 cases in 1990. But locally conducted information campaigns and vaccination programs on the bottom, they returned the crisis, as it did the possible restoration of federal funds within the Bill Clinto administration.

The budget reduction can be canceled, but the trust may be harder to recover. Long before the rise of RFK -Young disaster as shameful CDC Undated syphilis study at Tuskegee and management of nutrition and medication A glacial reaction to AIDS crisis Throw long shadows over health care institutions. Today is a set of Americans already predicted that they will lose faith in medical instructions within the current administration. This would undermine the very basis of healthcare, which depends on the people who decide to follow the recommendations based on research they did not personally conduct, and whose results they are poorly trained for analysis.

The repair of this violation will require many years of effort in establishing relationships, but it may also require cohesion of Americans with classical patriot tactics. With all the militant rhetoric of Trump, he misses that the most unusual scientific and medical successes of our country have partially attracted two -party enthusiasm because they have strengthened perceived American exceptionalism. In the midst of the cold war uncle RFK -Jr. decided to go to the moonand Richard Nixon led this dream to the implementation. After Franklin Delanna Roosevelt founded the National Fund for Infantile Paralych, Americans helped finance it Sending to more than 2.5 million penniesHence his chrispots as a Dimes march. The money supported the development of Jonas Salko Vaccine against polio. During the two years after its introduction were annual cases of polio fell on 90 percentage.

Even Trump who Left the original response to COVID-19, managed to watch the Historical Operation Warp Speed. If only he could admit it this This is an achievement that makes America great.