CDC warns of potential measles outbreaks as kids fail to get vaccines

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The covid-19 pandemic could also lead to the spread of other preventable diseases

. As social distancing restrictions are relaxed, diseases besides covid-19 could spread, it warns.

“The identified declines in routine pediatric vaccine ordering and doses administered might indicate that U.S. children and their communities face increased risks for outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases,” the authors wrote. “Assessment of state and local vaccination coverage is needed to quantify the impact among U.S. children of all ages and prioritize areas for intervention.

The decline in vaccines was not as severe for children under 2, and vaccination numbers for that group have begun to tick back up, the study found. But as of mid-April, about 1,500 young children a week were getting measles vaccines at sites tracked by the CDC, compared with 2,500 a week before the pandemic. Among older children, the numbers are much worse — only a few hundred a week are getting their measles vaccines, instead of thousands.

The researchers credited intensive efforts to get vaccines to younger children through well-children visits and direct outreach toGuy Culpepper, a family doctor in Frisco, Tex., said he has reached out to all his patients and urged them to get their immunizations. But he still has a quarter-million dollars’ worth of unused vaccines sitting in his office.Other countries are experiencing similar problems.

Children generally get their first measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at about 12 to 15 months, and the second when they are 4 to 6 years old. Gaps in vaccinations have already resulted in lower immunization rates; there wereCoronavirus: What you need to read

 

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Mogao se sprijećiti i Covid-19., svi vidimo, kako je to LOŠE odrađeno širom svijeta, BOJIM se kako će se dalje odrađivati!

itl mostly effect the trumpards who think vaccines are a deep state conspiracy right? maybe not so bad

Only God can help us....

That's why stop making vaccines with GM tech & stop using aborted fetus cells (eg, mrc-5) to develop vaccines. Then maybe ppl (especially those who are against abortion) will be okay w/ getting them, since it goes against christian religious belief to inject self w/aborted fetus?

Of course it can....🙄

So Stupid People Huh?

FAKE NEWS...MAKING PEOPLE TO FEAR COVID, SO THEY MAKE VACCINE AND GET DUCKING CHIPPED BY GATES AND SOROS FAKE NEWS!!!

Great, another outbreak when we’re not even close to handling COVID19

appears that some/many of those who survive will have long term health issues..heart, lungs, kidney and liver....Big pharmaceutical will benefit

Trump is the pandemic president. That's what'll be his legacy at the end of all of this. His failure to handle such a preventable crisis.

make it stop

God bless us all.

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