Health

Childhood vaccines drop sharply amid pandemic, UN says

Image copyright Unicef Screenshot A boy was vaccinated against measles in Samoa last year; many of these programs this year have been disrupted by the pandemic The pandemic has caused a sharp drop in the number of children vaccinated worldwide, says the UN. The decline in immunization against diphtheria, tetanus, …

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San Francisco in coronavirus ‘red zone’, freezes reopens

The San Francisco director of public health said Wednesday that the rate of coronavirus transmission continued to rise in the Bay Area and that the city would not move forward with the reopening. “Unfortunately, we are experiencing a spike in COVID-19 infections that is affecting our community’s health and reopening …

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