The state of Tennessee has gone anti-vaxxer, and that is immensely tragic. Needless suffering and death, including among the young who cannot choose for themselves, will be the inevitable result. This cannot be allowed to stand. The country is teetering on the brink of letting all our COVID-19 vaccination success and the re-opening of our economy be destroyed if this kind of reactionary response takes hold. The Tennessee state government has fired its top vaccination official, Dr. Michelle Fiscus, for daring to reach out to teens to get vaccinated, an action that is totally legal in Tennessee. Fiscus has pushed back in a hard-hitting letter that says state leaders have “bought into the anti-vaccine misinformation campaign.”