Fighting a drop in childhood vaccinations

Fighting a drop in childhood vaccinations After the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a "notable decrease" in the number of childhood vaccinations in the wake of the pandemic, 17 Democratic senators sent a letter to the agency asking for a plan to fight the "dramatic" drop. The group of senators, organized by New Hampshire's Maggie Hassan, asked the CDC to organize a program to reverse the trend. “We write to express significant concern regarding the recent decline in routine childhood immunization rates in the United States during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and urge you to take immediate action to encourage and support routine pediatric immunizations through the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic," the senators wrote in a letter, obtained exclusively by CNN. The CDC has cautioned that unvaccinated or under-vaccinated children will be at risk of other infectious diseases besides coronavirus.