Doctor’s visits are already rushed. Adding extra steps means some children, especially those from low-income families, simply won’t get the vaccines they should.
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A prominent Nature study and related research raise the possibility that vaccines may have a broader role in experimental therapeutics outside the realm of infectious diseases.
Outpatient visits, screening and diagnostic services, and child immunisation were particularly negatively affected.
More can be done to prioritise protection against highly transmittable and serious diseases, such as polio and measles.
Outbreaks of polio have become a thing of the past, told to us by our grandparents, only because of vaccination.
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Co-Director, Center for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (CEMA), University of Nairobi. Chancellors Fellow, Institute of Immunonology and Infection Research, University of Edinburgh. Associate Professor, Paul G Allen School for Global Health, Washington State University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis, University of Nairobi
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Infectious Disease Specialist, Senior Lecturer in Internal Medicine, Co-director of the Center for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis, University of Nairobi
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Associate Professor, University of Oxford
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Director of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (OB/GYN), Aga Khan University
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Endowed Professor of Health Policy and Associate Dean, George Washington University
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Medical Scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Head of the Division of Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) at the Ministry of Health in Kenya
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Head, Centre for Vaccines and Immunology, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Department Chair and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois Chicago
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