Dr. Paul Offit — director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia who recently spoke with HealthDay about COVID — said that if vaccine-induced immunity waned significantly, measles would not have been declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000.

A physician who spent decades disparaging the life-saving measles vaccine is poised to be the next head of the largest US public-health agency.

Dave Weldon, President Trump’s nominee to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told a top Democratic senator that he believes there’s a link between vaccines and autism and that the childhood vaccine schedule puts children in danger due to mercury exposure.