"After a decade of nearly 95 percent of children nationwide receiving all four of the major childhood vaccines—MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella), DTaP, poliovirus, and chickenpox—coverage declined to 93 percent from 2019 to 2023. It fell again, to below 93 percent, during the 2023 to 2024 school year, while the number of exemptions from one or more vaccines among kindergartners grew."
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"Public health experts worry that childhood vaccination rates could dip further under the current Trump administration with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the helm of the US Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC."
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"David Sugerman, a senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that a large number of measles cases are going unreported—and that the government’s ability to respond has been strained by recent federal budget cuts."
~ Walter Einenkel
“'We do believe that there’s quite a large amount of cases that are not reported and underreported,' Sugerman said during a rare meeting of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Tuesday. ...
The majority of cases have been among unvaccinated children, with 2 children and one adult marking the first U.S. measles deaths in more than a decade and the first child measles death since 2003."
"Sugerman estimated that each measles case may end up costing the government between $30,000 and $50,000 for a public health response.
Meanwhile, Kennedy was once again pushing misinformation about the measles vaccine, calling it 'leaky' and saying that it 'wanes,' during a separate press event on Tuesday."
"'He's dead wrong, the measles vaccine protects you for the rest of your life. The notion that it's a leaky vaccine is dead wrong,' Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia told USA Today."
