Vaccines are a hot topic.
The president is dispensing advice on the timing of childhood vaccines. The U.S. Health Secretary is reopening debates that had seemed closed. Federal health agencies are changing the guidelines for COVID-19 vaccines.
Texas policy is shifting, too. This year, for instance, the Legislature passed a new law making it easier for parents to opt their children out of school-mandated vaccines.
At the same time, public health experts are sounding the alarm about increasing vaccine hesitancy and decreasing vaccination rates. Their fears have already played out in real life, in Texas. A large measles outbreak gripped West Texas for the first half of 2025. Two unvaccinated children died. The nation’s measles case count, driven by the outbreak in Texas, rose to the highest level in more than three decades.
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The stakes are high. But with so much information — much of it conflicting — swirling around, it can be difficult to know what is true and even harder to know what to do.
We want to help with that.
Send us your vaccine questions, and we’ll aim to give you answers from the people who know this stuff best: doctors, pharmacists, researchers and, when appropriate, policy makers and legislators.
There are some questions that might not have clear-cut answers. In those cases, we’ll tell you what experts do know, as well as what they don’t.
This initiative isn’t about politics. We’ll address policies and policy changes that impact vaccines — such as availability and access — but we’ll focus mostly on the medical facts. We will aim to do this in a way that gives you the most accurate information in a clear and digestible format.
Ask us your questions about all things vaccines. And we’ll let you know what we learn as we track down the answers.