Explore CDC’s new childhood vaccination resources

As children catch up on school routines and playdates with friends, it’s more important than ever that they catch up on their routine vaccinations. CDC recently developed new resources to help immunization partners and healthcare providers communicate with parents the importance of staying on track with routine childhood vaccinations.

Routine childhood vaccines are essential to helping children and communities stay healthy, but many children fell behind on routine vaccines and well-child visits during COVID-19. CDC provides vaccines for about half of America’s children through the Vaccines for Children program, and in this past year there have been 13.1 million fewer doses ordered for routine vaccinations. CDC is concerned this may place children at risk or vaccine-preventable diseases.

To prevent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, it’s essential that children stay on track with routine vaccinations. With your support, we can help children get caught up!

Visit our Partner Resource Center to find the latest materials for parents, including a “Let’s Play Catch-Up” website feature (available in Spanish) and sample social media content, such as animated GIFs and images to share.

We appreciate your continued effort to spread this important message. Together, we can help protect the health of children and communities by encouraging parents to reach out to their doctors today.