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Four former surgeons general join call for National Vaccine Day

MarianVejcik/iStock By ZOE MAGEE, ABC News (NEW YORK) Four former surgeons general are joining a campaign calling for a National Vaccine Day to “focus our nation’s attention on the importance of vaccination.” In a letter exclusively obtained by ABC News, the doctors call on President Joe Biden to consider enacting the one-time federal holiday, which they say could feature telethons, radio messages and social media posts about the COVID-19 vaccines as well as widely available “opportunities for vaccination.” “Americans have endured incredible hardship over the last year. Many of us know someone who has died or fallen gravely ill from COVID-19,” Antonia Novello, M.D., Joycelyn Elders, M.D., David Satcher, M.D., PhD, and Richard Carmona, M.D wrote in the letter. “But the advent of safe and effective vaccines provides a light at the end of the tunnel. Vaccination has enabled humanity to triumph over terrible diseases like smallpox and measles. We now must launch a p

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4 former surgeons general join call for National Vaccine Day

4 former surgeons general join call for National Vaccine Day ABCNews Four former surgeons general are joining a campaign calling for a National Vaccine Day to focus our nation s attention on the importance of vaccination. In a letter exclusively obtained by ABC News, the doctors call on President Joe Biden to consider enacting the one-time federal holiday, which they say could feature telethons, radio messages and social media posts about the COVID-19 vaccines as well as widely available opportunities for vaccination. Americans have endured incredible hardship over the last year. Many of us know someone who has died or fallen gravely ill from COVID-19, Antonia Novello, M.D., Joycelyn Elders, M.D., David Satcher, M.D., PhD, and Richard Carmona, M.D wrote in the letter. But the advent of safe and effective vaccines provides a light at the end of the tunnel. Vaccination has enabled humanity to triumph over terrible diseases like smallpox and measles. We now must launch a p

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Dr Joycelyn Elders joins other surgeon generals to call for national vaccine day

Dr. Joycelyn Elders joins other surgeon generals to call for national vaccine day Here’s a splendid idea: Dr. Joycelyn Elders and three other former U.S. surgeon generals have called for a national vaccine day. Advertisement I’m old enough to remember the mass polio vaccinations in the 1960s. Everybody in my Lake Charles, La., neighborhood trooped down to Hamilton Elementary one weekend. We wouldn’t have thought of NOT doing it. The release: The first letter from the majority of former US Surgeons General to President Joe Biden calls for National Vaccine Day, a new one-time federal holiday to create positive associations with public health and vaccination to help the US stamp out COVID-19.

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4 former surgeons general join call for National Vaccine Day

4 former surgeons general join call for National Vaccine Day
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4 former surgeons general join call for National Vaccine Day

4 former surgeons general join call for National Vaccine Day
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