As Measles Continues to Rise, CDC Muffles Vaccine Messaging

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March 31, 2025, 8:15 PM

• •The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has buried a new assessment that found there is a high risk of catching measles in areas where vaccination rates are low.
• •The assessment had also called for a messaging strategy to encourage vaccination against the potentially deadly disease.
• •Health experts say the CDC’s recent inaction is alarming and that the agency’s justification for doing so—“the decision to vaccinate is a personal one”—echoes the sentiment of vaccine critics such as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The CDC has buried a new assessment that found there is a high risk of catching measles in areas where vaccination rates are low. The assessment had also called for a messaging strategy to encourage vaccination against the potentially deadly disease. But that plan was aborted, signaling a shift in how the agency may be responding to pressure from vaccine critic Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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