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John Hickenlooper: “Increased vaccine skepticism... the number of kindergarten…”

Featuring: John Hickenlooper, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Colorado

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John Hickenlooper Presses Trump's NIH Nominee On Growing Rates Of Vaccine Skepticism

Published | Video Starts at 04:34

I mean, it's Congress that decides the budgets of the nih. Not. No, no, we decided based on a lot of your advice. So be thinking of that. Obviously Increased vaccine skepticism... the number of kindergarten kids that are exempted for one or more routine vaccinations has continued to rise, highest levels recorded. Is this rising skepticism around vaccines, does that kind of make vaccine related research at NIH any less of a priority? (04:34–04:48)

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Asserts that vaccine skepticism has led to record-high exemptions for kindergarten vaccinations.

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