According to the Financial Times, Dr. Fauci is worried the vaccine skepticism that surged during the Covid-19 pandemic could affect childhood immunization rates for other viruses and result in the resurgence of "avoidable and unnecessary outbreaks" of childhood diseases.
Dr. Anthony Fauci was at the Economic Club of Washington.
Fauci will retire in December as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a position he has held for more than 35 years.
Fauci told the British newspaper that they should increase efforts to correct vaccine misinformation on social media.
Less than two weeks after the state of New York declared a health emergency due to the detection of the disease in wastewater from several New York counties, Fauci has warned of another outbreak. In Rockland County, New York, there was a case of the disease in July. As of August 1, Rockland Country's vaccine rate was 60.34%, which is the lowest in the state. The United States was declared free of the disease in 1979. Measles, a vaccine-preventable disease, was the cause of an outbreak in Rockland County. The United Nations and the World Health Organization said last year that the decline in childhood vaccinations was the largest in 30 years.
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