From The Cato Institute

 

A growing measles outbreak in Gaines County, Texas—24 cases so far in a county that voted 91 percent for Donald Trump—illustrates a grim irony.

Senate Republicans voted in favor of anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to be the secretary of health and human services. (And as a result...) Republican families will suffer.

In the 1960s, measles struck 3–4 million US residents annually, leading to nearly 500,000 diagnoses, 48,000 hospitalizations, and 400–500 deaths. By 2000, measles cases had fallen to fewer than 100 per year, striking only when travelers—mostly, unvaccinated US citizens—brought it home from abroad.

(Both of Alabama's GOP Senators voted in favor of Kennedy.)