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The Importance of Vaccination in the World
Naked scientist James Ticco talks to Kate O'Brien, director of the World Health Organization's Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals. In 2021 alone, there were 25 million children who missed out on at least one essential vaccine. 18 million of them didn't get a single dose, not one dose at all, of immunization through the routine program. This takes us backwards to levels of immunization that we were getting in 2008.