Therese now works with a group Grandparents for Vaccines that's trying to talk sense into younger folks who listen to nonsense about vaccination from the likes of RFKJr. and expose their children to real harm by not having them vaccinated.

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While the younger people scorning vaccination grew up protected and have no idea how serious some of these preventable illnesses can be….

He focuses on Therese Vogel, who saw her sister Nancy get measles when Nancy was 4. She developed encephalitis and had brain damage that made her life difficult forever after.

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Jonathan Cohn reports on grandparents now fighting to protect their grandchildren by urging their parents to have them vaccinated. As he notes, those of us who are older lived through years in which there was no vaccine for illnesses that can now be prevented by vaccination, and we saw the consequences of those illnesses.

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thebulwark.com/p/meet-the-horr…

Meet the Horrified Grandparents Fighting for Vaccines

They remember what diseases like measles are really like—and want the rest of America to know before it’s too late.

^{Jonathan Cohn (The Bulwark)}

"It may yet have to reckon with how the decisions of a relatively small number of individuals will affect the health of entire populations—who may soon have less of a choice about whether they get sick."

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"Now, by all appearances, Florida is testing out a head-in-the-sand approach to measles. ...

DeSantis has pitched Florida as a haven from liberal policies: In 2024, the state posted on its borders signs reading welcome to the free state of florida, advertising its commitment to personal choice."

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"Under the leadership of Governor Ron DeSantis and Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, the state has spent the past few years bucking public-health wisdom. A year ago, when measles spread through a Florida elementary school, Ladapo allowed unvaccinated children to return to class instead of staying home to limit the size of the outbreak; in September, he and DeSantis announced that they intend to do away with all vaccine mandates."

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"The measles situation in Florida is, in other words, an urgent problem for the state that the state should be urgently addressing.

But on all things measles, the state’s health department has been mostly silent. ...

Florida is the stark outlier—and has been headed in this direction for some time."

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"Out of the 30 states where measles has been detected in 2026, Florida currently ranks third in case counts. Since the start of the year, at least 132 confirmed or probable cases of measles have been reported across the state, where vaccination rates have consistently fallen below the threshold required to prevent outbreaks."

~ Katherine J. Wu

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theatlantic.com/health/2026/03…

Florida Is Trying to Ignore Measles Until It Can’t

The state is in the midst of an outbreak, but its health department has been mostly silent.

^{Katherine J. Wu (The Atlantic)}