RAC Vaccines and Vaccination Group

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Wed, 2021-01-13 11:16 — mdmcdonald

RAC Workgroup Efforts Focused on Vaccines and Vaccination

The Resilient American Communities (RAC) Vaccines and Vaccination Group is examining and acting on the issues surrounding vaccines development, distribution, vaccination logistics and execution, as well as vaccination strategy, safety, efficacy, trust, and hesitancy. Special attention is currently focused on COVID-19 vaccines and vaccination.

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Hank Rappaport

Jan Booher

John Girard

Kathleen H

mdmcdonald

mike kraft

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rac-vaccination@m.resiliencesystem.org

COVID 2024-25 vaccines 33% protective against emergency room or urgent care visits --study

Tue, 2025-03-04 10:52 — mike kraft

COVID 2024-25 vaccines 33% protective against emergency room or urgent care visits, data reveal Data were too limited to draw conclusions about VE against critical illness for adults of all ages, the authors note. CIDRAP

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Analysis: Who Will Fill the Gap as the U.S. Ends Foreign Aid Programs?

Tue, 2025-03-04 10:31 — mike kraft

As the reality sets in that the United States is drastically diminishing its foreign assistance to developing countries, an urgent conversation is starting among governments, philanthropists, and global health and development organizations.

It is centered on one crucial question: Who will fill this gap?

Last year, the United States contributed about $12 billion to global health, money that has funded treatment of H.I.V. and prevention of new infections; children’s vaccines against polio, measles and pneumonia; clean water for refugees; and tests and medications for malaria.

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Ebola: UN appeals for aid to Uganada after U.S. cancels its assistance

Tue, 2025-03-04 10:19 — mike kraft

UN appeals for funds to help contain Uganda Ebola outbreak

KAMPALA, March 4 (Reuters) - The United Nations has launched an emergency appeal to raise $11.2 million to help fund Uganda's response to an Ebola outbreak that has killed two people, after the country's health budget was strained by U.S. cuts to foreign aid. ...

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U.S. vaccination rates are declining as more states loosen mandates

Tue, 2025-03-04 09:52 — mike kraft

Vaccination rates are declining and might get worse as states relax rules More states are loosening vaccine mandates, scaling back vaccine promotion efforts and taking other steps likely to lower vaccination rates—even as a major measles outbreak spreads in Texas. Shalina Chatlani Medical Xpress

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Texas measles outbreak fueled by distrust in public health and personal choice

Tue, 2025-03-04 09:40 — mike kraft

West Texans, Mennonites at center of measles outbreak choose medical freedom over vaccine mandates Measles has sickened nearly 150 mostly unvaccinated people in rural West Texas, and a school-age child has died. AP News

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U.S. aid cuts may set polio eradication back -- WHO

Mon, 2025-03-03 11:28 — mike kraft

U.S. actions may set polio eradication back, WHO says

LONDON, March 3 (Reuters) - The eradication of polio as a global health threat may be delayed unless U.S. funding cuts – potentially totaling hundreds of millions of dollars over several years – are reversed, a senior World Health Organization official has warned.

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