A public health expert is sounding the alarm after a Trump administration appointee openly questioned the need for measles and polio vaccines — and suggested letting outbreaks spread to observe the consequences. Kirk Milhoan, the newly installed chair of a key federal vaccine advisory panel, argued on a podcast that modern sanitation and medical care might reduce the risks of once-deadly diseases, even proposing a “real-world experience” to see how measles affects unvaccinated people today. The comments stunned medical professionals, with Harvard professor Joseph Allen calling the idea “insane” and warning it amounts to experimenting on children as measles cases surge to levels not seen in decades.
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Health expert blasts Trump official for floating deadly ‘experiment’ on unvaccinated kids Health expert blasts Trump official for floating deadly ‘experiment’ on unvaccinated kids
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