Over 1M children have been infected with COVID-19 in United States.

At the same time, about one in five children in the US had a “vaccine hesitant” parent last year, according to new data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Parental concerns over vaccine safety have contributed to several major outbreaks of preventable diseases, including the 2019 measles outbreak in the US – the largest number of cases in 27 years. It was largely driven by parents in Washington state and New York who failed to follow childhood vaccine guidelines.