Pediatricians encouraged to reframe vaccines to help reverse flagging rates

ANAHEIM, Calif. — It may be necessary to reframe vaccines to help reverse a downward trend in the rate of routine childhood immunizations, a speaker said at the AAP National Conference & Exhibition.
Data has shown a troubling decline in the rate of pediatric vaccinations during the pandemic, with national vaccine coverage among U.S. kindergarteners falling from 95% to lower than 94%.
In a study presented at the meeting, Kimberly Giuliano, MD, chair of primary care pediatrics at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, and colleagues found that there was a 10.4-percentage point

ANAHEIM, Calif. — It may be necessary to reframe vaccines to help reverse a downward trend in the rate of routine childhood immunizations, a speaker said at the AAP National Conference & Exhibition.
Data has shown a troubling decline in the rate of pediatric vaccinations during the pandemic, with national vaccine coverage among U.S. kindergarteners falling from 95% to lower than 94%.
In a study presented at the meeting, Kimberly Giuliano, MD, chair of primary care pediatrics at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, and colleagues found that there was a 10.4-percentage point