The Click times: The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci, is warning that an anti-vaccination attitude could hurt child vaccination rates.
As cases of polio and measles resurface across the nation, Dr. Anthony Fauci expressed concern that the vaccine skepticism that rose during the Covid-19 pandemic could affect childhood immunization rates for other viruses and lead to a resurgence of “avoidable and unnecessary outbreaks” of childhood diseases.
The polio virus was discovered in wastewater from many New York counties less than two weeks ago, prompting the state to declare a health emergency. Fauci’s warning follows that development. In July, Rockland County, New York, announced the country’s first incidence of polio in nearly ten years. As of August 1, the polio vaccination rate in Rockland Country was 60.34%, one of the lowest rates in the entire state. When the last case of polio was known to have arisen locally and not from foreign travelers, it was proclaimed eliminated from the United States in 1979.
Another extremely contagious, vaccine-preventable illness that has reemerged in areas of the United States with poor vaccination rates is measles, which again occurred in an outbreak in Rockland County in 2018. According to the United Nations and the World Health Organization, the pandemic-related delays in routine immunization services resulted in the lack of fundamental vaccines for 23 million children globally last year, which was the “biggest persistent decrease in childhood vaccinations in almost 30 years.”
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