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										Healthcare Providers: Use key messages to encourage parents to stay up to date on their child’s vaccinations. Use these messages or adapt them to fit your particular audience.
**National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW) highlights the importance of protecting infants and young children from vaccine-preventable diseases.**This year, a primary focus is to ensure families stay on track for their children’s well-child visits and routinely recommended vaccinations.
COVID-19 has caused many disruptions in families’ lives – and in some cases, it has meant that children have missed or delayed their wellness checkups and vaccination, which are a critical part of ensuring children stay healthy. **CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommend that children stay on track with their well-child appointments and routine vaccinations.**
**Most parents choose the safe, proven protection of vaccines.**Giving babies the recommended vaccinations by age two is the best way to protect them from serious childhood diseases, like whooping cough (pertussis) and measles.
**Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective public health tools available for preventing disease and death.**Vaccines help protect both individuals and communities by preventing and reducing the spread of infectious diseases.
**Vaccination is a shared responsibility.**Families, healthcare professionals, and public health officials must work together to help protect the entire community.
**Vaccines are safe. The U.S. has a long-standing vaccine safety system that ensures vaccines are as safe as possible.**As new information and science become available, vaccine recommendations are monitored, updated, and improved.
**Trust in vaccines is built through millions of conversations between parents, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and community members.** NIIW provides an opportunity to encourage vaccine conversations at all community levels.
							
					
							Last Reviewed:  April 11, 2023						Source: 	National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
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