The dwindling rates of routine childhood vaccinations are quietly becoming another dangerous threat to children's health.
this spring, it’s hard to imagine districts will tell their students that they can’t participate in remote learning in the fall without a vaccination form. This leaves huge numbers of students potentially at risk for preventable infectious diseases.
While closing schools may mitigate the danger from the coronavirus, it doesn’t guarantee that children won’t congregate and risk catching other diseases. When schools are meeting virtually, thousands of parents, many with unvaccinated children, will have to find child care somewhere. As established child-care centers are increasingly strained, parents will look to informal child care or new facilities that lack typical vaccine regulations.
The mercilessness of this pandemic means public health authorities, who already have their hands full because of the coronavirus, must find a way to raise vaccination rates for unvaccinated children, often without relying on schools and their typical role as a backstop measure. They will need to identify children who may be congregating in unknown, often unregulated child-care arrangements without safeguards for vaccinations.
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