Routine Childhood Vaccination Rates Fell as Misinformation About the COVID-19 Shot Rose
for parents who did not want to get their children vaccinated. But recently, additional proposed bills to require all businesses to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for their employees, and to add COVID-19 to the list of vaccines for which personal belief exemptions for students are applicable, have not advanced in the state legislature.
Christina Hildebrand has a theory why. For years, she has been lobbying against California state legislation that mandates vaccination as a condition for attending public schools. Before the pandemic, she says, lawmakers were resistant to her arguments, and weary of her lobbying. But since the COVID-19 vaccines were released, Hildebrand says, they seem to be more receptive in the California State Assembly, in Sacramento.
That’s exactly what concerns experts like Dr. Gerald Harmon, president of the American Medical Association . “We’ve had three different pandemics,” he says. “The COVID-19 pandemic, the disinformation pandemic, and now the pandemic of distrust. So there is a substantial risk of giving more oxygen to the anti-vaxxer population.
Since the CDC last tallied childhood vaccination rates in 2021, schools have reopened—with mandates for vaccinations in place—and visits to pediatricians have increased after a sharp decline. In theory, those two factors mean that the vaccination numbers could recover, but Harmon and Kirkilas are not alone in worrying that the damage done by mistrust and misinformation regarding COVID-19 vaccines could have a lasting impact on the uptake of other vaccines.
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