meningitis, cholera, and all of them are vaccine preventable diseases. fully immunised children will not have these diseases and will not pass. so what we are doing now, our priority is to do catch up and recovery campaigns. so we have two priorities. the first one, in the next 700 days, to try here in nigeria to reach one million children with vaccination. so they will be protected against these diseases. the second one in the long term is to strengthen the health system. we need nurses, we need the commodities, we need the vaccines, we need a functioning 24/7 primary healthcare facility close to the people so it can be used. so this is our two fold strategy to try to address this issue. the number of unvaccinated children isn“tjust down to covid. it s also about a drop in confidence in these childhood vaccinations. what s that about? that s correct. so in the world what we are seeing is an increase of vaccine hesitance.
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if we got rid of the excuses, the way mississippi has, west virginia has, new york, california, we could increase the number of children vaccinated. if we enforce the rules that you have to have it go to school or a child care center, we can get back to where we were before covid, which was among the absolute best countries in the world in terms of childhood vaccinations. these aren t complicated. and it turns out that more than 70% of americans, whether they actually endorse childhood vaxs nations because they keep kids safe and save the country money from hospitalizations and other complications. thank you so much for sharing your expertise. we appreciate it. have a good new year. a healthy one as well. tomorrow is dr. fauci s last day as the head of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases after half a
mammograms, colonoscopies, pap smears, and then of course, we want to get our kids back to the childhood vaccinations as well. lisa: don t eat bacon and eggs before blood work. i did that one time. [laughter] what did you eat this morning? bacon and eggs. that might mess with your cholesterol. joey: that egg might be intrusive but check up colon cancer is a big problem. absolutely right, joey. it is more common. i actually see it in 30 years old. lisa: sleep is a big one, right? you want seventh-8 hours of sleep. your body regenerates when you sleep. that is a good part of self care, mental health care as well. make sure you are getting enough rest that you are alert, awake, oriented throughout the day with more energy and improvement. griff: i likes sleep quite
and other vaccinations finally, states should undertake the necessary technology upgrades and data standardization to improve data links mongol 62s, local and state immunization programs and the cdc to track routine childhood immunization rates. doctor, many people listening to this would say, well that should be the case but where do they need changed? well, we ve had a lot of states that have had very expansive exemptions that allow people to exempt for personal views for religious views. and really if they just don t want their kids to get a vaccine, wisconsin, idaho are high on that list. interestingly, there are red states which say no exemptions except medical exemptions, like mississippi and west virginia. and they re very high on the number of people who have gotten vaccinated. mississippi is the stop state, in terms of childhood vaccinations in the country.