Health Affairs October 30, 2024
We are at a turning point with vaccines. Never have so many forces converged to prevent the optimal use of lifesaving innovations responsible for changing the health and economic stability of society. No longer are people paralyzed from polio and crippled by measles, mumps, and pertussis among a host of other vaccine-preventable diseases. In the decade before 1963 when the first measles vaccine was available in the US, nearly all children contracted measles by the time they were 15 years old, 400–500 died each year, 48,000 were hospitalized, and 1,000 suffered encephalitis, among the 3–4 million infected each year. Vaccination changed this.
Globally an estimated 154 million lives have been saved by vaccines, and the vast majority of these were...
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