Vaccine Hesitancy and the Monetization of the Public Trust

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Vaccines have done more to benefit humanity than any other single piece of technology. Before vaccines, most people lived their entire lives much as we did last summer- stalked by an invisible enemy, wondering whether a sniffle or sore throat would be death’s calling card. Families expected to lose one child, and many lost multiple, to diphtheria, smallpox, measles, mumps, polio, or…