BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Before any vaccine can protect a child, someone has to reach them. Around 12.3 million of the children covered by the Big Catch-Up had never received a single dose of anything: not measles, not polio, not diphtheria. They are known as zero-dose children, and the reasons they go unvaccinated are rarely simple. They live in conflict zones, remote areas, or communities where health systems have never been reliab…
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