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The Many Ways Kennedy Is Already Undermining Vaccines

The health secretary has chipped away at the idea that immunizing children against measles and other diseases is a public health good.

© Niki Chan Wylie for The New York Times

Under the leadership of secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Health and Human Services has cut billions of dollars needed to modernize state programs for childhood immunization.

Fear Shadows Many Children in Immigrant Families

Heightened immigration enforcement is stirring anxiety among children whose parents are vulnerable to deportation. “Every day I worry they could take my mom.”

© Jimena Peck for The New York Times

Nine million children live in U.S. households with at least one noncitizen adult who could be affected by immigration enforcement.
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