Vaccine Hesitancy and Immunisation Backsliding
Falling routine immunisation is reopening doors that were closed decades ago.
Severity score
37.0
Serious · default weighting
Trajectory
Worsening
What this is
Routine childhood immunisation coverage has not recovered from pandemic disruption, and organised vaccine misinformation has taken root in several high income countries. Measles, polio and diphtheria outbreaks follow directly. Roughly fourteen million children receive no routine vaccines at all.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
40Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
52People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
20Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
1Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
78Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.