My daughter Carly has an annual physical approaching. With infectious diseases on the rise, she asked me to repost CDC's Adult Vaccine Assessment Tool. But if you click on the link, up comes a 404.
I'd put the valuable self-test on Facebook shortly after the presidential election amid rumors that RFK Jr. could head Health and Human Services, and friends asking me which vaccines they needed to update or get for the first time. I'm not an MD, so posted the assessment tool. Now that it's gone, Carly and her friends want to know how they can protect themselves. Yet despite the grinning new head of HHS next to his smiling boss on the opening webpage of HHS, with a banner that promises to "Make America Healthy Again," the tool to choose appropriate vaccines has vanished. With HHS overseeing FDA, NIH, and the CDC, I'm scared.
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