Welcome to World Immunization Week

Deepti Pradhan
5 min readApr 23, 2021

With global numbers reaching a staggering 145+ million cases and 3+ million deaths from Covid-19, April 24 marks the start of United Nation’s tenth observance of World Immunization week. The theme this year is “vaccines bring us closer”

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Immunizing people against a number of diseases is a well-established protocol recognized and recommended by the WHO and other medical agencies. However, it remains a…

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Deepti Pradhan

Employed at Yale University, Deepti is primarily a scientist & patient advocate. She runs Tilde Cafe, a forum to make science accessible (www.tildecafe.org)