The Pandemic Tanked Rates of Childhood Vaccination—for Everything

“There were really tremendous disruptions to routine vaccination,” says Jonathan Mosser, an assistant professor at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. He’s the senior author of a worldwide analysis of childhood vaccinations in 2020, which found that 30 million kids missed doses of diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus vaccines, and 27.2 million missed shots for measles.