The World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently warned the global COVID-19 pandemic created both good news as well as ominous measles forecasts.
Published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report in November 2021, the latest immunization, illness, and surveillance trends indicate measles deaths decreased 94% since early 2020.
However, more than twenty-two million infants missed their first dose of the measles vaccine in 2020, about 10% more than in 2019.
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