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Fauci Warns of Anti-Vaxxer Attitude Beyond Covid-19

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US President Joe Biden’s top medical adviser warned in an interviewBloomberg Terminal with the Financial Times that a broad refusal of vaccines against Covid-19 may undermine efforts to immunize children and contain future illness outbreaks.

Anti-vaccine attitudes “might spill over into that kind of a negative attitude towards childhood vaccinations,” Anthony Fauci was quoted as saying. “If you fall back on vaccines against common vaccine-preventable childhood diseases, that’s where you wind up getting avoidable and unnecessary outbreaks.”