Sep 1, 2026 · 52 min · 8 segments
This week, Sarah and Tanya talk vaccines and politics, the rise and fall of the girlboss, and whether women are being asked to do it all while making it look effortless. They also dive into the…
Sarah AndrewsHostTanya NathanHost
This is happening continuously since the start of this administration where RFK Jr. campaigned on being saying, make America healthy again, the Maha Mom movement, getting rid of vaccines, et cetera.
So like this is really interesting because we've talked about the cuts to CDC, but they still put out this report, which I'm sure he was very unhappy about.
And he's had he's had to like answer to it on national news the last few weeks.
surpassing the 2025 tally to reach the highest annual total in 35 years amid rapidly declining vaccination rates among kids.
And so cases have been confirmed in 43 states and South Carolina, Utah, Arizona have had major attacks and or not attacks, major outbreaks.
And the rates among kindergartners for measles nationally, the MMR vaccine, it's mumps, measles, rubella, correct, has dropped to 92.5% in 2024, 2025, down from 95.2% in 2020.
National threshold that we need is 95% for what is it called? Immunity, correct? Herd immunity.
So like I think I didn't actually understand herd immunity until COVID happened.
And obviously we all lived through it and was like, okay, how fast can we get to herd immunity? Which would mean like how – this is why it was so important for folks to get vaccinated so we could go and live our lives.
yeah
so the people that aren't getting these vaccines are by far and large children under the age of 18 they of course there are some adults that don't have the measles vaccine but if kids get the measles it is deadly as we all know
This is happening continuously since the start of this administration where RFK Jr. campaigned on being saying, make America healthy again, the Maha Mom movement, getting rid of vaccines, et cetera.
So like this is really interesting because we've talked about the cuts to CDC, but they still put out this report, which I'm sure he was very unhappy about.
And he's had he's had to like answer to it on national news the last few weeks.
surpassing the 2025 tally to reach the highest annual total in 35 years amid rapidly declining vaccination rates among kids.
And so cases have been confirmed in 43 states and South Carolina, Utah, Arizona have had major attacks and or not attacks, major outbreaks.
And the rates among kindergartners for measles nationally, the MMR vaccine, it's mumps, measles, rubella, correct, has dropped to 92.5% in 2024, 2025, down from 95.2% in 2020.
National threshold that we need is 95% for what is it called? Immunity, correct? Herd immunity.
So like I think I didn't actually understand herd immunity until COVID happened.
And obviously we all lived through it and was like, okay, how fast can we get to herd immunity? Which would mean like how – this is why it was so important for folks to get vaccinated so we could go and live our lives.
yeah
so the people that aren't getting these vaccines are by far and large children under the age of 18 they of course there are some adults that don't have the measles vaccine but if kids get the measles it is deadly as we all know
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