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Parents urged not to shun vaccinations during lockdown
The Royal College of General Practitioners has urged parents not to shun childhood vaccinations during the coronavirus outbreak for fear of ‘burdening’ the NHS.
Professor Martin Marshall, chair of the college, wrote in the Guardian encouraging parents to take up the routine vaccination programme for their children while the pandemic is ongoing, arguing that a vaccine is likely to make a major contribution to getting us out of the crisis.
The NHS childhood vaccination programme protects children for life from potentially deadly diseases, such as measles, polio and tuberculosis. But, vaccines only work if people have them. Therefore it is essential that parents continue to get their children vaccinated during the coronavirus pandemic. A further slump in vaccination uptake risks outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as whooping cough, measles, mumps and rubella in the future.
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