From ProPublica’s new article on RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine agenda, a throwback to the era before vaccines became controversial in the United States (first on the left and now on the right):
Vaccines, for decades, weren’t politically divisive. They were so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants in the 1990s put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners.
Vaccines used to be a unifying issue with broad, bipartisan support:
When the nation’s immunization program was in trouble in the 1980s, Republicans and Democrats stepped in to save it.