VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-10-31
“We are flirting with the return of an old killer, not because the science changed, not because the virus itself changed, but because our politics did,”
Annie Andrews · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-31
Andrews wrote in a February column about South Carolina's measles outbreak, arguing politics caused the return of an old killer.
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