{"id":123659,"date":"2021-06-10T15:25:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T22:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/drop-in-childhood-vaccinations-during-pandemic-may-raise-risk-of-other-outbreaks-when-schools-reopen-cdc-says"},"modified":"2021-06-10T15:25:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T22:25:32","slug":"drop-in-childhood-vaccinations-during-pandemic-may-raise-risk-of-other-outbreaks-when-schools-reopen-cdc-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/drop-in-childhood-vaccinations-during-pandemic-may-raise-risk-of-other-outbreaks-when-schools-reopen-cdc-says","title":{"rendered":"Drop in childhood vaccinations during pandemic may raise risk of other outbreaks when schools reopen, CDC says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drop-in-childhood-vaccinations-during-pandemic-may-raise-risk-of-other-outbreaks-when-schools-reopen-cdc-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The American Academy of Pediatrics also<b> <\/b>called on parents Thursday to get their children up-to-date on routine shots as families prepare for the return of in-person classes in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand many families understandably delayed visits to their doctors during the pandemic,\u201d Yvonne Maldonado, who chairs the group\u2019s committee on infectious diseases, said in a statement. \u201cWe urge families to get their children caught up with their routine immunizations now. States have begun opening up, and as families move about in their community, we are concerned that we could see outbreaks of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2019\/10\/31\/measles-makes-your-body-forget-how-fight-other-diseases\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_10\" target=_blank>measles,<\/a> whooping cough and other life-threatening diseases that could spread rapidly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CDC data from 10 jurisdictions<b> <\/b>provides further evidence of the pandemic\u2019s impact on routine childhood and adolescent vaccination rates, which were <a href=https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6919e2.htm target=_blank>documented last year<\/a> as parents across the country canceled well-child checkups to avoid coronavirus exposure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Academy of Pediatrics also called on parents Thursday to get their children up-to-date on routine shots as families prepare for the return of in-person classes in the fall. \u201cWe understand many families understandably delayed visits to their doctors during the pandemic,\u201d Yvonne Maldonado, who chairs the group\u2019s committee on infectious diseases, said in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}