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Wednesday, November 30th, 2022

Nearly 40 million children are dangerously susceptible to growing measles threat

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Source:     Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publication Date:     Wednesday, November 23, 2022, 1:00 p.m. ET
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Stephan:   The anti-vaxxer movement is playing a very negative role in diseases other than Covid. This movement is a form of willful stupidity that killed millions with Covid and now, as this CDC report describes, has become a factor with measles. You can't fix willful stupidity because it is a choice people make, a deliberate denial of well-established facts.
A young child with measles Credit: Baby center

Measles vaccination coverage has steadily declined since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, a record high of nearly 40 million children missed a measles vaccine dose: 25 million children missed their first dose and an additional 14.7 million children missed their second dose, a joint publication by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports. This decline is a significant setback in global progress towards achieving and maintaining measles elimination and leaves millions of children susceptible to infection.

In 2021, there were an estimated 9 million cases and 128,000 deaths from measles worldwide. Twenty-two countries experienced large and disruptive outbreaks. Declines in vaccine coverage, weakened measles surveillance, and continued interruptions and delays in immunization activities due to COVID-19, as well as persistent large outbreaks in 2022, mean that measles is an imminent threat in […]

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