FRIDAY, Aug. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- In findings that offer compelling evidence of the power of childhood vaccines, a new government report shows the routine shots have prevented hundreds of millions of illnesses, tens of millions of hospitalizations and more than 1 million deaths among Americans born in the past 30 years. The , published Thursday by the U.
S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, analyzed the benefits of the CDC’s Vaccines for Children Program, which was launched in 1994 to make childhood immunizations more affordable and accessible. The results of the research are a “testament to the success” of vaccinations for preventing diseases, , a pediatrician at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone in New York, told .
“These are vaccinations that are currently recommended in the childhood vaccination series and also are provided at reduced cost as part of the Vaccines For Children Program. I am very pleased and grateful to see this study being performed to report the health benefits of vaccinations as a way to prevent disease,” Siddiqui added. “My job as a pediatrician is to keep children healthy and out of the hospital.
Vaccinations are a way to keep children healthy and prevent severity of disease,” she added. “I encourage all parents to continually have a conversation and discussion with their pediatrician about each vaccine that their child is due for as well as the specific disease that it would help in preventing.” In the n.