How RFK Jr.’s vaccine agenda risks resurgence of deadly childhood plagues

By: Patricia Callahan, ProPublica

Outlets: Louisiana Illuminator

Published: March 22, 2026

Words: 6,243

Last Updated: 4 months, 2 weeks ago

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This report was originally published by ProPublica.

Dr. Adam Ratner hovered over a gravely ill infant in a New York City intensive care unit on a grim day in 2022. The 3-month-old girl spiked a fever two days earlier and had become lethargic. Soon she was having seizures and struggling to breathe.

She didn’t register Ratner’s towering frame or the bright hospital lights. Her eyes stared up and to the right, eerily frozen.

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