This White House plan lays out a roadmap for fighting COVID-19 in the future as we begin to get back to our more normal routines. The plan focuses on four key goals: protecting against and treating COVID-19, preparing for new variants, preventing economic and educational shutdowns, and continuing to vaccinate the world.
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Vaccination
Vaccination is one of public health’s most successful tools for preventing and controlling the spread of infectious diseases and, increasingly, cancers and chronic diseases too. Immunization is an effective and cost-efficient strategy that prevents sickness and death in all age groups and saves billions of dollars each year. The COVID-19 epidemic and recent outbreaks of measles and other preventable infectious diseases underscore the importance of vaccines and sustaining high vaccination rates. Work is needed to ensure that people of all ages receive a complete series of the vaccines they need.