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Childhood vaccine coverage remains high, but we can't let our guard down

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Sign up for Your Local Epidemiologist New York and get Dr. Marisa Donnelly’s community public health forecast in your inbox a day early. Importantly, 97% is above the threshold needed to reach herd immunity for measles (95% must be vaccinated to prevent outbreaks). Receipt of 1 MMR dose by 2 years of age.

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How Measles, Whooping Cough, and Worse Could Roar Back on RFK Jr.’s Watch

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The availability of safe, effective covid vaccines less than a year into the pandemic marked a high point in the 300-year history of vaccination, seemingly heralding an age of protection against infectious diseases. Now, after backlash against public health interventions culminated in President-elect Donald Trump’s nominating Robert F.

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How measles, whooping cough, and worse could roar back on RFK Jr.’s watch

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By Arthur Allen The availability of safe, effective COVID vaccines less than a year into the pandemic marked a high point in the 300-year history of vaccination, seemingly heralding an age of protection against infectious diseases. Hell make America sick again, said Lawrence Gostin, a professor of public health law at Georgetown University.