Vaccines save lives. Period.

I don't want to drag politics into this, but many more people would be dead or suffer serious side effects from disease if it weren't for vaccines. Part of why the average life span has increased around the globe is that far fewer children die in infancy or at an early age. Polio is no fun, nor is cholera, meningitis, monkeypox or smallpox, etc.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/here-s-how-we-know-rfk-jr-is-wrong-about-vaccines/ar-AA1umMmR

Vaccine breakthroughs over the past two centuries have cumulatively made the modern world a far more hospitable place to be born. For most of human history, half of all children died before reaching age 15; that number is down to just 4 percent worldwide, and far lower in developed countries, with vaccines one of the major drivers of improved life expectancy. "As a child," the vaccine scientist Stanley Plotkin, now 92, told me, "I had several infectious diseases that almost killed me." He ticked them off: pertussis, influenza, pneumococcal pneumonia -- all of which children today are routinely vaccinated against.