Op-Ed: Polio is back — aided by global health failures that spread COVID and monkeypox (via latimesopinion)
Even now in the U.S., according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll published in July, more than 40% of American parents of children ages 6 months to 4 years said theySo what can be done? Polio vaccination campaigns in the U.S. during the 1950s offer proof we can overcome hesitancy despite. We must address vaccine hesitancy through community-level outreach from state and city public health departments, community leaders and organizations and healthcare systems.
And until the U.S. and other wealthy countries make serious commitments toward sharing our vaccine supply and taking other steps to achieve vaccine equity, we will remain at risk of outbreaks. Reducing vaccine inequity and hesitancy is achievable. Whether we follow through is a measure of our nation’s public health leadership and commitment to global health.
Abraar Karan is an infectious disease physician and postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. @AbraarKaran Yvonne “Bonnie” A. Maldonado is the Taube professor of global health and infectious diseases and chief of the division of pediatric infectious diseases at the Stanford School of Medicine.
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