The Anti-Vaccine Nuclear Option That Could End Vaccination Programs on January 20, 2025

I’m not saying it’s going to happen, but it could. So the time to prepare is now.

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I had a good conversation with Brian Dean Abramson today. Brian is a lawyer who specializes in vaccine law. He wrote Vaccine, Vaccination, and Immunziation Law, a book on the jurisprudence surrounding one of the most successful public health interventions in human history. As you may know, vaccines have not been without controversy since their inception. And those controversies sometimes rise to the level of legal controversies that are up to the courts to decide.

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The main question I had for Brian was: What can the President of the United States do to end the vaccine programs in the United States? What would be a sort of “nuclear option” to get rid of all vaccine mandates and/or all vaccines?

First, Some Background

Public health in the United States is generally a local matter. The police powers given to the…