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13.333H11.3327C11.7009 13.333 11.9993 13.0345 11.9993 12.6663V7.33301C11.9993 6.96482 11.7009 6.66634 11.3327 6.66634Z\" fill=\"#0C0C0C\"><\/path><\/svg>            <\/button>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcaxzhsh000t26ql41vqaa3f@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Routine vaccines have prevented the deaths of about 154 million children around the world over the past 50 years, a new study shows, but efforts have been slowing recently, allowing for the growth of some vaccine-preventable diseases. This backslide could lead to many more unnecessary illnesses and deaths without an increased effort to vaccinate children and counter misinformation.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcaxzncj0002336mmqbj8ahy@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The report, published Tuesday in the medical journal The Lancet, says that over the past five decades, the World Health Organization\u2019s Expanded Programme on Immunization has vaccinated more than 4 billion children. 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Kennedy Jr. is facing pressure from lawmakers over his newly appointed vaccine panel that&#8217;s set to meet for the first time this week.<\/span>  <\/div><figcaption class=\"image__credit\">Kayla Bartkowski\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"related-content__headline\">        <span class=\"related-content__headline-text\" data-editable=\"content.headline\">Pressure builds on Kennedy\u2019s vaccine panel ahead of first meeting<\/span>      <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcaxzncj0003336mibkl5a1h@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            There was a concerted effort to vaccinate people between 1980 and 2023, the researchers found, resulting in a 75% drop in the number of children who are \u201czero-dose\u201d \u2014 those younger than 1 who have not received any doses of the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine, which is often used as a way to measure overall immunization coverage.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcaxzncj0004336mj759ltxc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cChildhood immunization has proven to be one of the most successful and cost-effective public health strategies known both in terms of lives saved and return on investment,\u201d the researchers wrote. The financial rate of return is, in some instances, up to 44 times the cost of vaccination, they say.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcaxzncj0005336mczu58io3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            But despite this success, the study says, vaccination efforts have been slowing, and in some cases, progress has even been reversed.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcaxzncj0006336mzrpzpvkf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Between 2010 and 2019, there were declines in at least one kind of vaccination in 21 of 36 high-income countries measured in the research.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcayh8v300033b6mo9wgubjj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, an international effort that helps<strong> <\/strong>vaccinate children in developing countries and helped fund the new research, says that essential childhood immunizations declined in more than 100 countries around the world between 2010 and 2019, leading to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like polio, diphtheria and yellow fever. 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The number of zero-dose children globally peaked at 18.6 million in 2021 during the pandemic<strong> <\/strong>before falling to 15.7 million in 2023.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcaxzncj0008336m5k3w61wv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The pandemic isn\u2019t the only phenomenon to blame for falling vaccination rates. Violent conflicts, political volatility, climate-related crises, the intensification of migration and displacement of populations, and vaccine misinformation have also posed obstacles to vaccination.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcaxzncj0009336mx6tyfqw4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Misinformation about vaccines has grown so prevalent that WHO identified it in 2019 as one of the leading threats to global health.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcayigza00053b6m3ev3rsae@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Vaccination efforts in the US and other regions may slow even further with new leadership. President Donald Trump\u2019s proposed 2026 budget defunds multiple crucial vaccine campaigns overseas.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcaxzncj000a336mg10tr5j0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The proposal would shut down the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s global health unit, which would end its massive program that vaccinates children against polio, measles and other diseases. The proposal would also zero out US funding for Gavi.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcaxzncj000b336mj1h1a9o4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Trump also chose vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS. Despite pledging during his confirmation hearings that he would not infringe on Americans\u2019 access to vaccines, Kennedy said in May that the Covid-19 shot would no longer be recommended for healthy children and pregnant women<strong>.<\/strong> Amid an ongoing multistate measles outbreak, he focused on unconventional treatments instead of vaccination, and this month, Kennedy fired the members of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s vaccine advisory committee and replaced them with new members, many of whom have questioned vaccine safety or been accused of spreading misinformation.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcc37f1t0002336mvq64hqr0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Kennedy said in a videos shown at a Gavi fundraising event in Brussels on Wednesday, and seen by Reuters that the US government wouldn\u2019t send funds to Gavi until it considers the \u201cbest science available\u201d concerning what he characterized, without providing evidence, as safety concerns about vaccines. 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Rates in some jurisdictions exceeded 5%, CDC research found.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcaxzncj000e336mnubgqy16@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The US is nearing a record for most measles cases reported in a single year since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000, largely because of outbreaks among unvaccinated people. There was also a nearly 10-fold increase in measles infections recorded in the EU and the European Union economic area alone in 2024, the study said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcaxzncj000d336mc5s2f2ay@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cDespite the monumental efforts of the past 50 years, progress has been far from universal. Large numbers of children remain under- and un-vaccinated,\u201d said senior study author Dr. Jonathan Mosser of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcaxzncj000f336mipbducn5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The majority of children who have never gotten a vaccine are outside the US, the study says. 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Kennedy Jr. pauses while speaking at a news conference at the Health and Human Services Department on April 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kennedy spoke about the intent of the FDA &#8220;to phase out the use of petroleum-based synthetic dyes in the nation&#8217;s food supply.&#8221; (Photo by Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)<\/span>  <\/div><figcaption class=\"image__credit\">Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images\/File<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"related-content__headline\">        <span class=\"related-content__headline-text\" data-editable=\"content.headline\">Kennedy\u2019s HHS sent Congress \u2018junk science\u2019 to defend vaccine changes, experts say<\/span>      <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcaxzncj000h336m06cbwtwz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Because the reasons for a lack of vaccination vary by country, the researchers argue that public health experts will need to create targeted campaigns to get more people vaccinated, especially if WHO wants to achieve its target of 90% global vaccine coverage by 2030.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcaxzncj000g336m87zgd3dt@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cSustained investment and targeted strategies will be essential to maintain progress, close immunisation gaps, and ensure equitable access to life-saving vaccines,\u201d wrote Hai Fang, a professor who specializes in vaccine economics and epidemiology of infectious disease at the Peking University Health Science Center and the<strong> <\/strong>Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s Joint Center for Vaccine Economics, in an editorial that accompanied the study in the Lancet.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccines Children&#8217;s health Fighting disinformation See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied! 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