Even in blue Colorado, vaccine advocates worry about RFK Jr’s appeal and ‘medical freedom’ movement

Growing rates of infectious disease in state's most populous region could indicate increased vaccine hesitancy'

In deep blue Colorado, one of the only states that did not shift right in the 2024 presidential election, vaccine advocates see openings for Robert F Kennedy Jr.

An environmental lawyer and the nation's most prominent propagator of vaccine misinformation, Kennedy is now the embodiment of where left meets right - the scion of a political dynasty who first ran as a Democratic presidential candidate and is now slated to join president-elect Trump's administration as the nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services.