Global decline in confidence in child vaccines

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A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a railway station in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. 

A new UNICEF report estimates that 67 million children have not received a single dose of important vaccines since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. And, this week, a camp for internally displaced people in northern Iraq was abruptly closed, leaving residents to suddenly find new places to live. Also, The World relaunches “The Big Fix,” a series focusing on how people around the world are working to cut greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change. Plus, Spanish police take down the biggest cocaine lab found in Europe.


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