Easier to Immunize: Part 1

Interested in a local health department perspective on childhood immunizations? Ms. Katie Towns has been the public face of municipal support for a COVID-19 vaccination program. No stranger to vaccination rollouts, she participated in distributing influenza vaccines during the 2009 H1N1 viral outbreak and is here to speak with Jane about childhood immunizations, misinformation, and how the local Vaccine 417 program is helping in our home base, Springfield, MO. 

(00:30) Introduction to Ms. Katie Towns
(01:10) A health department's role in childhood immunizations
(02:43) Reductions in childhood immunizations
(04:34) Barriers to overcome for parents
(06:12) Ways the health department deals with vaccine hesitancy
(07:50) The Vaccine417 program at Vaccine417.com
(09:48) Teen immunizations
(11:17) Reductions in teen immunizations
(13:15) What can the community do?
(14:31) Dilemmas in keeping schools safe
(16:14) What keeps Katie up at night?

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