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February 2025: Vaccines and Infectious Diseases in the News

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February 2025: Vaccines and Infectious Diseases in the News
February 3, 2025

In this video, Dr. Paul Offit offers a multigenerational perspective on infectious diseases, describing how each generation of parents starting with his grandparents held different fears as a result of which vaccines were available. He also describes how pediatric skill sets have changed since he trained, attributing the differences to decreases in bacterial infections as a result of vaccines.

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