Controlling the spread of many infections, including measles, depends on trust in public health, which is eroding.
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The US eliminated measles in 2000, but the number of cases at home and abroad has experts worried.
As public health officials try to tame the outbreak, declining vaccination rates draw concern.
Vaccination campaigns like the ones that eventually eliminated polio and measles in the United States required decades of education and awareness in order to achieve herd immunity in the U.S. population.
Some states have a legal framework allowing “mature minors” to make their own health care decisions – but they apply it in different ways, and some don’t have it at all.
A COVID-19 vaccine isn’t the only tool for fighting this pandemic. An immunologist argues that safe pneumonia vaccines would reduce the severity of COVID-19, save lives and prevent the worst cases.
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