Tennessee recently made national news when the state fired its top-ranking vaccination official, Michelle Fiscus, MD, and reports surfaced that the state health department was ceasing outreach to adolescents about all vaccines, not just COVID-19 vaccines.
In this exclusive MedPage Today video, William Schaffner, MD, medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and an infectious diseases specialist in Nashville, discusses, in general, the importance of the state health department in vaccination outreach, why getting vaccination information to adolescents is especially critical, and how missed vaccinations could herald the return of many infectious diseases in the community.
