The Role of Vaccines in Combatting Covid-19

By John A. Molinari, PhD

The ability of certain vaccines to control and greatly limit the spread of many infectious diseases—such as polio, diphtheria, measles, tetanus, and hepatitis B—is one of the most significant public health achievements of the 20th century.¹ Vaccinations have changed the face of many infectious diseases by dramatically lowering their incidence in the population. Table 1 details this success against many previously common diseases. Routine childhood immunization has become an integral component of pediatric preventive medicine. In fact, most young adults have neither contracted nor seen previously common infections such as polio, diphtheria, tetanus, measles, mumps, and rubella, thanks to the long-standing success of childhood vaccination programs. 

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