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Today, Explained

The future of vaccines

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Trump 1.0 got us safe COVID vaccines in record time. Trump 2.0 is trying to take the vaccines away. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy and Denise Guerra, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by David Tatasciore and Andrea Kristinsdottir with help from Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Photo of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. by Win McNamee/Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here's by no means complete list of things RFK Jr., our nation's Secretary of Health and Human Services,

0:05.9

has previously said about vaccines.

0:11.8

I do believe that autism does come from vaccines.

0:15.8

That clip's just over two years old.

0:17.8

A few years before that, of course, we had the COVID-19 pandemic.

0:30.3

The problem is the entire sort of medical cartel is now feeding at the tit of Big Pharma.

0:35.1

Just before the pandemic, he traveled to Samoa to talk about the perils of vaccinations.

0:39.1

Later that year, 83 Samoans died in a measles outbreak.

0:41.0

Anything you do differently?

0:43.3

No, absolutely not.

0:48.1

That was from his confirmation hearing, and then he got confirmed,

0:51.7

and now he's trying to dictate which vaccinations you can get, and we're going to figure out what that means for you on today

0:54.8

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1:45.0

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