Covid-19 caused a doubt about the vaccine. This may affect our readiness for the following epidemic: NPR

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The Americans have become more attractive about vaccine in the five years since the start of the Covid-19s. NPR reports from NPR on the challenge this represents to combat public health threats.

Jude Joffe-Block, byline: When PandeMic Covid-19 hit, there was a moment when some people thought it might be a unified time for the country, like 11/11. But Mouta remembered when he felt that he was convinced that the epidemic would divide the Americans instead. It was in late March 2020, almost five years ago.

Motta: I closed many states and municipalities. People were stuck at home – right? -Orders to stay at home. Trump promised that he would reopen the economy, return to work, and leave their homes again by Easter, 2020.

Jouf Block: President Donald Trump was talking to Fox News on March 24, 2020.

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President Donald Trump: So I think Easter on Sunday, and you will have churches all over our country. I think it will be a beautiful time.

Joffe-Block: Motta says these statements were at odds with public health experts at that time. He studies public attitudes towards science at the Faculty of Public Health at Boston University.

Motta: It is the efforts made by President Trump to photograph the Covid-19 as not dangerous that led to polarization.

Joffe-Block: Trump made false allegations about the virus and pay the treatments that have not succeeded. Motta tracks a direct line from Trump’s comments five years ago to public opinion trends that continue to this day.

Motta: Why is you vaccinating if the gastrointestinal threat is not all dangerous? This is when we started to see a division in public opinion, so that the Republicans had more negative opinions towards vaccination, and the Democrats reached more positive views.

Blockage: There is a larger direction. Americans who have negative views of Covid-19 vaccines are increasingly negative about other vaccines as well. One in four Republican parents exceeds or delays some childhood vaccines for their children, according to a study from the KFF, the non -profit health policy organization. There, of course, many factors that led us to this moment. Washington University Karl Bergstrom, which studies the spread of infectious diseases and wrong information, is called the epidemic …

Karl Bergstrom: A great opportunity for people who pay anti -tax propaganda to get their foot in the door with new slides of the population, and they did so with great success.

Joffe-Block: was Robert F. Kennedy Junior, one of the most prominent publications of this type of advertising, is now the Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services in Trump. The very real result of the decline in vaccination rates is the increasing number of measles in Texas and New Mexico.

Dan Salmon: There is a very real concern that this may lead to a wide range of measles.

Joffe-Block: Dan Salmon directs the Institute for Chectors at Johns Hopkins University.

Salmon: I mean, I really hope it does not happen, but the United States is very weak at the present time.

Joffe-Block: There is a paradox over the partisan gap on the vaccines. Covid vaccines were quickly developed thanks to Trump administration initiatives such as warp. Karl Bergstrom again.

Bergstrom: Save the Kofid vaccine millions of lives. He was remarkably successful. It was developed in a small part of the time of any previous vaccine.

Joffe-Block: a success that is difficult to repeat in our current political environment. Public health experts are concerned that we are not learning the correct lessons from Covid-19, especially with concerns about potential bird influenza epidemic. Recently, the Trump administration has reduced research financing on vaccines frequency, and scientists are afraid of research on the same technology, which was used in the leading Covid vaccines, could be the following.

Jude Joffe-Block, NPR News.

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