A recent study takes a pessimistic view of our ability to eradicate measles by 2100, although rubella forecasts look a bit more promising.
In 2017, 118 countries achieved the Global Vaccine Action Plannational MCV1 coverage. Since that time, measles coverage has declined from 84%-85% in 2017 to 81% in 2021, leaving 24.7 million completely unprotected and 14.
7 million children underimmunized .Moss has previously written on theand told Medscape that it's not tenable to rely on increased vaccination coverage alone. We need"new tools and the new strategies. One of the ones that we're most excited about [is] microarray patches," he said, noting that they are thermostable and can be administered by anyone. Moss also said that, while he is hoping for point-of-care rapid diagnostics, the focus of the efforts needs to change. "Where's [the] measles virus coming from? Where's it being exported from and where is it being imported to?" he posited, adding that the focus should be on these areas"to try to shut down transmission…a radical kind of second phase of a measles eradication puts aside equity and focuses on sources and sinks.""It's not as contagious and has a lower sort of herd immunity threshold because of it," Winter said.
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