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Helen Clark defends Fauci pleading the fifth and says Trump's vaccine cuts could cost lives

Helen Clark led New Zealand as Prime Minister for nearly nine years and she hasn't slowed down since.

Now the Chair of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Clark spoke to Global Roaming at a moment when vaccines have become a genuine political battleground.

Clark talks to Hamish Macdonald about Trump's executive order to cut the recommended childhood vaccine schedule, RFK Jr.'s rise at the top of US health policy, and why she thinks Anthony Fauci pleading the Fifth before a Senate committee isn't necessarily what it looks like.

She also raises a crisis that's had almost no attention: a fast-growing…

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