By Marie Rosenthal, MS
Vaccination decreased cases of varicella and resulting hospitalizations and deaths from the disease by more than 95%, according to Mona Marin, MD, who presented the data at IDWeek 2022, in Washington, D.C. (abstract 801).
Vaccination reduced U.S. cases of the disease by 97%, hospitalizations among those younger than 20 years by 97% and deaths by 99% over rates seen before vaccination, according to Dr. Marin, who is a medical epidemiologist at the CDC’s National Center