Recent data shows a 12.9 million dose gap in public vaccine orders in the U.S. for routine childhood vaccines in 2020-2021 compared to the year prior. This leaves many children, especially younger ones, at risk of serious illness from vaccine-preventable diseases, like measles and whooping cough. In addition, as children return to in-person school and … Continued
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