An Antidote to the Anti-Vaccine Movement Lives in Rural West Virginia

An Antidote to the Anti-Vaccine Movement Lives in Rural West Virginia

Local health officials in Summersville, West Virginia, credit Dr. Mark Tomsho for the area's high vaccination rates. Chris Jackson for NOTUSThis story was published with the assistance of the Journalism & Women Symposium (JAWS) Health Journalism Fellowship, supported by The Commonwealth Fund.For a pediatrician, Mark Tomsho is surprisingly calm when talking about the decline of childhood vaccination rates.“Pendulums swing, pendulums swing,” he mu…