Diane’s farewell message
After 52 years at WAMU, Diane Rehm says goodbye.
Part of an image from NIH depicting so-called "herd immunity." Measles outbreaks can more easily occur in communities where numbers of immunized people has dropped below a critical mass.
The U.S. declared measles eradicated in 2000 but refusal to vaccinate children among certain pockets of the population means the disease is resurging. Public health officials in this country say 10 states have reported cases in 2019 alone. Internationally, the World Health Organization recently named “vaccine hesitancy” as one of the top global threats of 2019.
How do public health officials confront those opposed to vaccination? And why has the movement proved so resilient? Diane talks with Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
Guests
- Dr. Anthony Fauci Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Most Recent Shows
Reflections on 100 days of the Trump administration
Diane takes the mic one last time at WAMU. She talks to Susan Page of USA Today about Trump’s first hundred days – and what they say about the next hundred.
Rep. Jamie Raskin on countering “MAGA chaos”
Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin was first elected to the House in 2016, just as Donald Trump ascended to the presidency for the first time. Since then, few Democrats have worked as…
How deportations ignited a clash between the White House and the courts
Can the courts act as a check on the Trump administration’s power? CNN chief Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic on how the clash over deportations is testing the judiciary.