NEW data from the Disease Control Center indicates the emergence of a tradition returning to the school: In 2024, kindergarten vaccination rates have decreased Fifth year in a row. Meanwhile, vaccine exemptions have reached a record level.
These statistics have become more disturbing in the past fall when, shortly after 286,000 children Their education began without evidence of full immunity against measles, a man Pride not to get a influenza snapshot He was re -elected to the presidency. Since then, the United States has discussed with it The largest measles outbreak in three decadesWhile leaders who must take this crisis like fire instead.
In just eight months, Trump and Robert Kennedy Junior, Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services, made every effort to undermine one of the developments in the twentieth century – our general health structure. When doing this, they risk endangering millions of people and starting a torment link of lack of confidence, which may take decades to recover.
As usual, the Trump administration’s position on vaccines is lower by sincere populism and more than personal profit. Before Kennedy launched his own presidential campaign on the platform “Make America healthy again”, happened 20,000 dollars every week Helping is a non -profit institution devoted to enhancing suspicion of vaccines. Now in the Council of Ministers, they opened the entire fire Consulting painting Center for Disease Control And replaced them with a chugggd crew, half of them She was not published in search of the look at the look at all On vaccines. Just last week, Kennedy He canceled 500 million dollars of federal financing Frank vaccines, which 14 million deaths were prevented During the Covid-19 epidemic. This decline was made during Keep a financial share In continuous litigation against the vaccine manufacturer.
All the time, the United States saw more than 1300 measles cases And three deaths this year. In response, Kennedy has alternately Support and Underpin The most effective way to prevent – widespread immunization.
The evacuation of financing through science has spread, with Trump’s pieces to support research to a 35 years old. In the National Health Institutes, 1,800 grants It was terminated, a step from the government accountability office An illegal consideration. The administration also continues to freeze scholars $ 339 million at the University of California, Los Angeles and $ 2.2 billion at Harvard University. So it is not surprising that 75 % of scientists The Nature magazine poll is considering leaving the country, raising the possibility of a lost generation of American talent and creating life.
At the international level, cuts in the budget that Trump does not think and does not think about destruction. Management He dismantled the American Agency for International Development, One of the most successful infectious diseases in history. In doing this, she liquidated programs Vaccination of more than 800 million children Against deadly diseases such as malaria. The researchers found it 300,000 people have already died Because of these cuts, which can lead to another 14m deaths that can be prevented Over the next five years – all of this to the intestine of an agency that managed to manage Opposite From 4 % of Annual national defense budget.
Once again in the United States, medical associations, local officials and individual doctors are Cooperation to buy vaccines Directly from manufacturers and insurance companies in pressure to continue covering the costs of these shots. Their efforts reflects a tested and real strategy to counter immunity immunity. Before the outbreak of the current disease, discounts during the Ronald Reagan era caused public health The measles of the measles are more prevalentWith 27,000 cases in only 1990. However, local awareness campaigns and popular vaccination programs restored the crisis, as well as eventually restoring federal funds under the Bill Clinton administration.
Budget discounts can be reversed, but it may be difficult to recover confidence. A long time before the rise of RFK JR, disasters like a notorious CDC The study of non -therapist pink disease in Tuskyji Food and Drug Administration Ice response to the AIDS crisis Long shades are cast on public health institutions. Today, a large number of Americans You really expect They will lose confidence in medical guidance under the current administration. This would undermine the basis of public health, which depends on people who choose to follow guidelines based on research that they have not been personally trained and are trained in their results.
Reforming this violation will require years of building relations, but it may also require the mobilization of Americans with the classic tactic of patriotism. Despite all of Trump’s backward speech, it lacks that the most exceptional scientific and medical progress in our nation has partially attracted partisan enthusiasm because they strengthened the imagined American exception. At the height of the Cold War, RFK JR Choose to go to the moonAnd Richard Nixon Bring this dream to achieve. After Franklin Dylano Roosevelt founded the National Child Palsy Corporation, the Americans helped it to finance it Send by mail with more than 2.5 million diesThus, baptizing it as a march of demolitions. This funds supported the development of Jonas Salik, the polio vaccine. Within two years of its presentation, the annual polio cases were 90 % decreased.
Even Trump, who Founding the initial response To Covid-19, I managed to supervise The speed of the historical process. If he can only know that this It is the type of achievement that makes America great.