Aug. 28, 2025 8 AM PT
To the editor: As a survivor of polio 75 years in the past, having been quarantined for “scarlet fever” after that and changing into a doctor, I can say personally and professionally: I really like vaccines and vaccinations. The present outbreak of COVID (“COVID rising fast in California, fueled by new ‘Stratus’ variant tied to Omicron,” Aug. 26) within the face of Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine non-leadership factors to a daunting chance for thus many individuals compromised by growing old and sickness: a extra extreme COVID case that might be deadly.
I hope and pray individuals will comply with the science and their pediatricians and first care physicians who know the science, and get vaccinations as they turn into obtainable. It might be tragic to see one other case of polio in these United States.
Robert Kalayjian, Lengthy Seashore
