Researchers are learning the Trump administration axed their work to improve vaccination

The Trump administration is canceling studies about ways to improve vaccine trust and access. The move comes in the midst of a large measles outbreak fueled by unvaccinated children. The National Institutes of Health has long awarded grants to study why some people have questions or fears about vaccines and ways to help those who vaccinations to overcome barriers. Now some of those researchers are getting letters abruptly canceling their projects, something highly unusual. The step, first reported by The Washington Post, is the latest move against vaccines since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became the nation’s health secretary.