Read about the decreasing rates of immunizations that has pediatricians and experts across the globe worried about the resurgence of previously eliminated infectious diseases.
, a pediatric electronic health records company, shows that during the week of April 5, the number of MMR shots given to children decreased by approximately 50 percent; diphtheria and whooping cough shots decreased by 42 percent; and HPV vaccinations decreased by 73 percent. The data came from 1,000 independent pediatricians located across the country and used the week of February 16 as the baseline for numbers before COVID-19 became widespread.
“The last thing we want as the collateral damage of COVID-19 are outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, which we will almost certainly see if there continues to be a drop in vaccine uptake,”, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ committee on infectious diseases and immunization expert at Children’s Hospital in Denver, told the outlet. “Internationally, measles and diphtheria will pop up around the world. Even with limited travel, they can make it into the United States.
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