The Winter 2026 edition of the Grandparents for Vaccines newsletter arrives at a moment when the ground beneath childhood immunizations continues to crumble.
Federal rollbacks of long-standing vaccine recommendations have landed alongside falling vaccination rates and a resurgence of measles in communities across the country. For families, this has created uncertainty and confusion, layered onto preventable risk.
What distinguishes the Winter Grandparents for Vaccines newsletter is not urgency for its own sake, but steadiness. It holds fast to what has always anchored public health: science, memory, and the voices of people who have lived the consequences of life before the availability of childhood vaccines.
Grandparents bring something essential to this conversation. They remember childhood before routine vaccination reshaped it, before preventable illness became preventable. Those memories are not nostalgia; they are instruction.
School nurses recognize this same truth in real time. When vaccination rates slip below herd immunity, the impact is immediate: quarantine timelines, disrupted learning, and families under strain. These are not abstract policy outcomes. They are realities in school communities in 2026.
The Winter 2026 Grandparents for Vaccines newsletter places lived experience alongside evidence, not in competition with it. One example is the story of Deb Robarge, a school nurse, public health nurse, grandmother, and Executive Director of the Indiana Association of School Nurses. Her story reflects what many grandparents and school nurses carry: professional knowledge shaped by personal memory, and a deep understanding of what is at stake when protection erodes.
This issue invites reflection and participation in the grassroots movement!
It invites readers to remember what vaccines have already accomplished.
It invites grandparents to recognize the value of their own stories.
It invites participation in a growing, intergenerational movement committed to protecting children.
Meet Mindy, a New Jersey mom who proudly shares her story of choosing protection for her 4-year-old daughter:
The Grandparents for Vaccines movement makes room for many ways of showing up, by reading and sharing the newsletter, contributing a story, supporting local or state leadership, or simply helping hold steady in conversations that have become harder.
Because prevention has never been passive.
And protecting children has never been optional.
Grandparents for Vaccines Winter 2026 Newsletter
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