Tag: Rosa Weber

Disease does not care if you are a Democrat or Republican. In the past, Americans understood that critical lifesaving tools such as vaccines are part of our national responsibility. The lifesaving power of vaccines should transcend politics. Attacks on public officials who support vaccines are attacks on a building block of public health. Lula's conviction was upheld on a first appeal. Under Brazilian electoral law, a candidate is forbidden from running for elected office for eight years after being found guilty of a crime. Lower court judges, the country's top prosecutor and business groups urged the court to abide by its own 2016 ruling that defendants can be jailed if a conviction is upheld on a first appeal, as Lula's was earlier this year. The 2018 Texas primaries demonstrated that voters in the Democratic and Republican primaries support vaccines, as anti-vaccine candidates lost at the polls. Two strong supporters of vaccines in the Texas Legislature handily defeated anti-vaccine candidates in Republican primaries. In this year’s primary election, Texans spoke loudly and clearly of their support for vaccines.