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Susan Monarez: “If vaccine protections are weakened, preventable diseases…”

Featuring: Susan Monarez, Acting Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | National

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Published | Video Starts at 07:26

The stakes are not theoretical. We already have seen the largest measles outbreak in more than 30 years, which claimed the lives of two children. If vaccine protections are weakened, preventable diseases will return. I was fired for holding the line on scientific integrity. But that line does not disappear with me. It now runs through every parent deciding whether to vaccinate a child. (07:26–07:30)

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Asserts that weakening vaccine protections will lead to the return of preventable diseases.

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