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    Gaining Immunity

    Dec 02, 2019 3 minutes

    MEREDITH WADMAN is a reporter at Science magazine and the author of The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease, a Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2017. Her op-eds on biomedical issues have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Time. We asked her to pose four questions about the future of vaccines.

    Driven by vaccine-resistant communities in New York state, U.S. measles cases reached a level in 2019 So perhaps it’s not surprising that this year, the World Health Organization declared vaccine hesitancy a top-10 global health threat. In a postfact political climate, how do we battle vaccine skepticism?

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