Stanford model projects hundreds of thousands of deaths if U.S. childhood vaccines lose liability shield

Stanford model projects hundreds of thousands of deaths if U.S. childhood vaccines lose liability shield

The Direct Message Tension: Measles was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, yet 2025 set a three-decade case record and 2026 has already broken it again, while the federal government simultaneously weakens the policies that once contained it. Noise: The debate is usually framed as individual choice versus government mandate, which obscures the actual mechanism — that vaccine effectiveness depends on collective coverage sustained by boring, …