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One of the biggest achievements of the first Trump administration was a vaccine to slow the spread of COVID. Operation Warp Speed was responsible for the rapid development of vaccines against the novel coronavirus. The vaccines are credited with saving nearly 20 million lives globally, and allowed people to more fully resume their lives.

It was a reminder that vaccines have long been proven to save lives — not only for those who are immunized, but for those around them, a concept known as herd immunity .

Yet, in move that appears to put ideology ahead of scientific consensus, Robert

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