Politico June 10, 2024
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VACCINE BOOSTER TURNS CRITIC — Public health experts don’t think former President Donald Trump is personally opposed to immunization. But they fear he’ll worsen the country’s backslide on immunizations if he’s elected to a second term, POLITICO’s Megan Messerly reports.
On the campaign trail, Trump has promised to pull funding from schools with vaccine requirements. His ramped-up rhetoric on immunization comes as independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy tries to draw support from the former president’s increasingly vaccine-skeptical MAGA base.
While most vaccine policies are set at the state level, Trump or another president has many tools in the executive branch toolbox that could chart a new course on immunization, including the following measures:
— The CDC...
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