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🔵   Calculating the Damage of Vaccine Skepticism

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Since its inception, in 2000, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which works with local governments to bring vaccines to low-income countries, has helped administer 1.9 billion vaccines and reached a billion children. Global vaccination work has nearly halved the global infant-mortality rate, saved more than a hundred and fifty million lives, prevented innumerable costly hospitalizations and long-term disabilities, and strengthened local health services in many remote places. “I can’t imagine a more successful, cost-effective public-health organization than the Gavi alliance,” Peter Hotez, a pediatrician and vaccine researcher at Texas Children’s Hospital, told me. “I mean, you had close to half a million kids dying of measles every year when Gavi was launched, and they got it down to ...

The New Yorker     Jun 27, 2025