I find it extremely troubling when politicians step beyond their expertise and enter what is the domain of simple science. Where we could actually get really good decisions on scientific merit, I would also encourage those same politicians to take a trip to other countries and other parts of the globe where these diseases are still debilitating the lives of millions of children and then see if they'd be so flip about what we decide here.
I travel the globe on a routine basis, and that is a completely naive position. It's just mind-boggling that anybody would take these positions. We have seen the impact of that, of course, when it comes to COVID as well. There was vaccine hesitancy. In a sense, we had the drugs but we didn't have the sociology to help us understand what was about to happen, and the hesitancy resulted in deaths—and continues to result in deaths.