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As Canada's child vaccination rates drop due to lockdown, experts fear other infectious outbreaks

from National Post

As Canada's child vaccination rates drop due to lockdown, experts fear other infectious outbreaks National Post Vaccination rates among children have dropped as much as 20 per cent in parts of Canada, ramping up anxieties that the country could face a series of infectious outbreaks while still battling COVID-19. As public health officials peel back coronavirus restrictions, allowing Canadians to return to a form of pre-pandemic normalcy, pediatricians worry children who are delayed in their vaccination schedules may be at higher risk of contracting vaccine-preventable diseases, such as measles and bacterial meningitis. READ MORE

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