Not vaccinating your kids could prove more deadly than coronavirus, parents warned
NOT vaccinating your children could prove more deadly than the coronavirus, experts have warned.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the WHO hailed vaccines and said they are one of the most “powerful tools” in the history of public health, but said that the pandemic has put previous gains at risk. Those going to have their jabs fell by a quarter during lockdown and many children are now unprotected from the illnesses.In regions such as London and the West Midlands immunisation fell even further, meaning many more children are at risk.The MMR is a safe and effective combined vaccine that protects against three separate illnesses – measles, mumps and rubella, which is also known as German measles – in a single injection.
At least 30 measles vaccination campaigns have been or are at risk of being cancelled because of the pandemic,Middle income countries such as Brazil and Mexico have also started to dial down on their immunisation programmes - showing that it’s not just lower income countries that have been hit by the pandemic.
This is while in the Democratic Republic of the Congo nearly 1,000 kids have died in the last year from measles after an epidemic broke out there. Looking back to the UK and experts have previously said that parents should not put off getting their kids vaccinated.
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