July 20, 2022
Forbes on July 16, 2022 writes, “The Covid-19 pandemic helped fuel the largest continuous decline in global childhood vaccinations in three decades from 2019 to 2021, according to data released Thursday by the World Health Organization and UNICEF, which called the numbers a ‘red alert for child health’.”
They reported the following:
- Roughly 25 million children in 2021 alone missed one or more doses of a vaccine called DPT that’s seen as a marker of childhood immunization coverage—it combats diphtheria (a severe bacterial infection), tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough)—up from 2 million who missed one or more doses in 2020 and 6 million from 2019.
- Declines were steepest in low and middle-income countries, including those in East Asia and the Pacific, though coverage dropped in every world region.
The article closes with “slew of factors led to a drop in vaccination coverage, including an increased number of children living in zones of conflict where officials struggle to offer access to vaccination, a surge in misinformation as well as problems caused by Covid such as supply chain disruptions and containment measures that limited access to immunizations. The Covid-19 pandemic led to significant disruptions in access to routine health care in the U.S. and around the world, with many delaying preventative care due to safety concerns and overburdened health-care systems”.
Good try but some of us know the truth…
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