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WBUR Podcast point. Boston.

This is on point.

I'm Magna Chakra-Bardi.

We're going to take a look at how deeply anti-vaccine sentiment has embedded itself at the highest levels of government.

Now, that's not really new, but what is new are some very recent comments

made by the head of the CDC's vaccine advisory panel. But first, let's start with Bob Oakes.

He happens to be a former colleague of mine. For decades, he was WBUR's Morning Edition host,

and that's my home station. Bob was also one of the most respected political reporters around these parts.

Bob was born in December of 1954.

That also happens to make him a survivor of what was once the most feared disease in America.

In her journal, my mom kept a journal.

She repeatedly wrote about how I was an active baby standing in the playpen,

in the bathtub, in the crib before I was six months old.

But then just a month or so later, she wrote, you became sick.

She got up one morning and I was in the crib,

and instead of bouncing around as a six-month-old,

I was not really moving.

She wrote, on August 11th, you were taken to the hospital,

polio in all caps, followed by two exclamation points.

Mom wrote about this, but she never really talked about it much.

And I always wondered if she felt guilty about not getting me the polio vaccine

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