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Friday, April 04, 2025

The Department of Health and Human Services cut $2 billion from a program that supports vaccines for vulnerable children, forcing public health departments to lay off staff and cancel clinics.

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New: HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. said he wouldn't take away childhood vaccines. Then he cut $2 billion from state health programs that helps get them to kids. Clinics canceled. Nurses fired. Immunizations stalled--all amid a measles outbreak. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt ...

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-- Brandy Zadrozny (@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social) April 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM

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... Last week, Jackie Griffith showed up at her office at the Collin County Health Care Clinic in north Texas ready to start her day " answering emails from local doctors before heading to a nearby high school to go over the latest vaccine record requirements.

Instead, the 60-year-old registered nurse was called into her director's office and told to pack up her belongings. The federal government had yanked funding, she learned, and her position " supporting vaccination efforts for uninsured children through a network of more than 60 providers " was gone.

Across the country in New Hampshire, Kayla Hogan, 27, was hearing the same. She worked for the state's Department of Health and Human Services, onboarding clinics and hospitals into a data system that would help them administer free childhood vaccines. Now that project was in jeopardy, threatening the process of getting children vaccinated. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-03 07:49 PM | Reply

My wife and I will be sure to continue to keep our vaccination statuses up to date with preventable diseases about to run amok thanks to RFK Jr.

Just last week we both got the MMR vaccine to thwart any chance of measles or mumps. Next week, we'll update our COVID vaccines too.

#2 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-04-04 12:38 AM | Reply

This is easily the scariest thing for me.

We just found out we're having another son in October.

I'm dreading the day I see a headline that RFK dumbf*&^ pulls approvals for childhood vaccines and I have to navigate a world where pediatric infectious diseases is a real threat again.

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2025-04-04 02:40 AM | Reply

"The Department of Health and Human Services cut $2 billion from a program that supports vaccines for vulnerable children"

Who needs children?
America First!

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-04 08:52 AM | Reply

"We just found out we're having another son in October."

Congrats on the great news!

And here's to JPWJr!

#5 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-04 10:44 AM | Reply

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