The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today announced disease prevention amongst school-aged children is heading in the wrong direction… even for vaccine-preventable diseases.
Despite the widespread return to in-person learning, pandemic-related disruptions continued to affect vaccination coverage and assessment for the 2021–22 school year, preventing a return to prepandemic vaccination levels of 95% coverage.
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Furthermore, vaccinated people were at lower risk of long-term breathing difficulties than unvaccinated individuals