How Trump Administration Actions Might Affect Polio Eradication

Forbes November 2, 2025
Bruce Y. Lee

Here’s a multiple-choice question. When you get really close to a goal that you’ve worked towards for decades, should you:

1. Redouble efforts.
2. Stay the course.
3. Reverse course and do less.

Number three may not look like the best of the three choices, but it does seem to be what the U.S. government is doing at this moment with the efforts to eradicate polio. Over the course of nearly four decades, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative has gotten the world closer than it’s ever been to completely getting rid of the virus that less than 80 years ago was still terrorizing much of the world, including killing several thousand Americans and paralyzing tens of thousands of Americans each year....

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