We Have Met the Enemy, and He is Us: Falling Childhood Immunization Rates

Peter J Morris
2021 North Carolina Medical Journal  
Significant outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease have occurred in communities, schools, and populations that share at least one characteristic: a lower than expected immunization rate for age. This cannot be attributed simply to vaccine refusal, hesitancy, deferral, cost, or access, but to a combination of these factors. In the words of the comic strip character Pogo, "we have met the enemy, and he is us."
doi:10.18043/ncm.82.2.122 pmid:33649128 fatcat:7e4fhgwatngm5puduoffwkbo6a