I almost died of rubella when I was three.

I was very weak and wouldn’t eat. My mother was frantic. The doctor prescribed mashed lima beans and I pulled through.

Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr at the White House in May.Credit: AP

I still keep lima beans in the freezer.

It’s infuriating to see Bobby Kennedy Jr be so benighted about vaccines, risking the health of all Americans. How can the most powerful country on Earth sow the seeds to make people sick again with preventable, even once-eliminated diseases?

Between school shooters and RFK Jr, children in America are vulnerable in ways they don’t have to be. Officials are endangering children instead of shielding them.

The boneheaded vaccine debate has inflamed the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, which is reeling from mass layoffs and a deadly shooting by an anti-vaxxer at its headquarters.

Kennedy tried to fire the director, Susan Monarez, then called in President Donald Trump to finish her off after she refused to go along with his dictum to back his advisers if they recommended restricting access to proven vaccines. Other officials quit, leaving the health agency in crisis, just as winter is coming.

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