"Within the last few decades, the public health community saw a path toward global eradication of polio, especially with the World Health Organization declaring wild poliovirus eradicated in Africa in 2020. It would have followed #smallpox, which was declared to have been eradicated worldwide in 1980. That didn’t happen, in large part due to the effects of global under-vaccination caused by a combination of mistrust, poor implementation, lack of access in conflict zones, insufficient funding, loss of global momentum, and work suspended because of the #Covid19 pandemic."
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