President Trump's stance on vaccine mandates raises concerns about the future of childhood vaccination programs in the United States. Experts warn that a decline in vaccination rates could lead to a resurgence of infectious diseases.
President Trump recently said he does not like vaccine mandates in schools, igniting concern among many people and some establishments throughout the United States. From vaccine access to funding changes to firing staffers at the National Institutes of Health , it seems no area will be untouched by the new administration.
Who has repeated debunked claims linking autism and vaccination (which Trump has also echoed) and is now working with a lawyer who previously tried to All of this could signal a change to the lifesaving routine vaccinations for children in the United States. While no one knows exactly what will play out in the coming months, experts have thoughts on what an end to longstanding vaccine programs and mandates could mean if they happen. Here’s what they say: If childhood vaccine programs disappear, we’d likely see an increase in infectious disease outbreaks in time. “First of all, we have to understand that this is the worst-case scenario, and I think it is unlikely,” said Dr., a professor of preventive medicine in the department of health policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. “But should the general support in its various sources for the childhood immunization program be diminished or end, what would happen is we would have a growing population of under- and unvaccinated children growing up in the United States.”If you look back to the late 1960s when there was not large support for childhood vaccinations and there weren’t school vaccine mandates, roughly 60% of children were vaccinated. While more than half of children were vaccinated, it wasn’t enough to keep infectious diseases from spreading. “You would have a circumstance where there would be continuing outbreaks of these now bygone infectious diseases once again,” Schaffner said.“If we ask the average new mom ‘What’s diphtheria?’ or even maybe ‘What’s polio?’ they wouldn’t really be able to give us a comprehensive answe
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