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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Another Measles Outbreak, as Vaccine Skepticism Rises

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Eighty-two people in Ohio, most of them unvaccinated children, have contracted the measles, as a new survey suggests the Covid-19 pandemic has increased vaccine hesitancy. Plus, House Democrats finally release Donald Trump's tax returns, but do the initial headlines support their political narrative? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:18.3

From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is The Tomic Watch.

0:24.9

The measles outbreak in Ohio, sickens 82 people as a poll shows vaccine hesitancy rising.

0:31.9

Plus the house ways and means committee goes through with publicly posting President Trump's

0:36.2

tax returns.

0:37.2

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with The Wall Street Journal.

0:40.5

We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassel and editorial board member

0:45.3

Kate Batchelder O'Dell.

0:47.4

The measles outbreak in Ohio involves 32 hospitalizations and most of the people who are sick are

0:53.6

unvaccinated and our children.

0:55.9

Many of them quite young, five or under.

0:58.8

Let's start with a clip of Dr. Meshiko Roberts, health commissioner for the city of Columbus,

1:03.9

speaking Tuesday on MSNBC's Morning Joe.

1:06.8

Vaccines should not be political.

1:08.1

Vaccines have been around our country for decades and they've really helped us reduce,

1:13.3

if not eliminate, vaccine infections like measles, like protests, like polio.

1:21.2

And so it is really challenging public health and what is our authority and what can we

1:26.2

do for the population health.

1:28.0

This isn't about individual health all the time.

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