In the unforgiving arena of American politics, few patterns are as reliable as the midterm election bloodbath for the party holding the White House. And this year Democrats are trying to capitalize on the midterm curse by fielding 150 candidates from medical and scientific backgrounds. All have entered the fray since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was appointed Secretary of Health and Human Services and are putting his Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) on the ballot. In particular, his vaccine reform program. Yet, a major driver of the rise of MAHA can be directly attributed to the Biden administration’s disastrous handling of Covid, when Democrats in power contorted science to fit political imperatives. Initial claims that vaccines would nearly eliminate infection and transmission soon crumbled, yet officials doubled down with broad mandates for federal workers, contractors and private employers – policies later struck down in court.........

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