Washington Post The study noted persisting outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, including the U.S. measles outbreaks this year reaching over 1,000 cases. Millions of children around the world may be at risk because of stalling vaccination efforts in recent years, according to an analysis of a half-century of global vaccination efforts.
The study, published Tuesday in the Lancet medical journal, said that the World Health Organization’s global vaccination program “has achieved remarkable success” since it was created in 1974, reaching more than 4 billion children and saving 154 million lives.
But progress has stalled in recent decades, the authors said, withinequalities in access and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, as well as an upsurge in vaccine hesitancy and misinformation, continuing to hinder progress.