Friday letters: Vaccination, due process and empowering girls

Friday letters: Vaccination, due process and empowering girls

Children’s health in the U.S. is under fire I listened to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s statement to the U.S. Senate. He claimed chronic diseases did not exist when his uncle was president. Wrong. In 1962 the leading cause of death in the U.S. was heart disease, and cancer came second. In 2020, 690,882 people died of heart disease, 598,532 died of cancer and 345,323 died from COVID, the third leading cause of death. In 2023, heart disease and cancer r…