VACCINATIONS ACROSS AMERICA

On Friday, June 17, the FDA authorized both Moderna and Pfizer vaccines for children 6 months to 4 years old. Our evidence summary provides timely knowledge and evidence-based talking points for public health professionals, healthcare workers and others engaging in conversations about vaccinations for children under 5 years old.

Brown School of Public Health and Microsoft AI for Health release a new dashboard that shows vaccine preventable death nationwide and for each state, providing critical insights for state and federal Covid-19 response teams.

The U.S. vaccination rollout is at once a remarkable public health success and a striking public health failure. It reveals challenges far beyond vaccinations, and urges investigation into why current models for delivering and building confidence in life-saving public health measures are failing to reach and protect all Americans equally.

There’s more to people’s health behavior than party affiliation: Unvaccinated Americans are not a monolith, but instead diverse individuals with unique histories, identities and lived experiences — and more remain open to vaccination than public discourse may suggest.