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The Dose: Respiratory viruses, listeria recall, and more public health news

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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. This week’s top 4 public health nuggets in New York — whether or not they made headlines — explained. Bottom line You’re now caught up with public health in our state. See you next week.

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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. There was a major measles outbreak in New York City in 2019 : 605 cases in a community with low vaccination coverage (79.5%), leading to 20 kiddos going to the intensive-care unit.