Kennedy is also right to say the MMR vaccine doesn't always provide lifelong immunity to the mumps virus. However, his more extreme assertions—that the shot is causing mumps outbreaks in the military or that the disease is harmless in children—are wrong. (Before vaccination, service members routinely suffered from infections, and kids were at a heightened risk of developing brain inflammation and hearing loss.)
Kennedy relies on scraps of truth to construct an alternative reality in which vaccines don't work, their harms outweigh their benefits, and the diseases themselves aren't so bad...
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