

Other features include a room with 80 species of fluttering butterflies and an insectarium that hosts a live colony of a half-million leafcutter ants. Visitors to the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation can watch conservators behind glass panels as they work with some of the 4 million specimens stored there. The American Museum of Natural History in New York City is set to open the doors of a $431 million facility next week that showcases its vast collections in new ways. The American Museum of Natural History’s new center connects 10 of its existing buildings. “Fear and disinformation about all types of vaccines circulated as widely as the virus itself,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said. Mostly because of the pandemic’s disruptions to health care, 67 million children missed routine childhood vaccinations between 20, and measles cases more than doubled from 2021 to 2022. Only China, India, and Mexico showed growth in this measure of confidence. The number of people agreeing with the statement “Vaccines are important for children to have” plunged by more than 40% in South Korea and by up to 15% in most European countries, Canada, and the United States.

In most countries, women were more likely than men to doubt vaccines’ worth after the pandemic, according to survey data gathered by the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. PUBLIC HEALTH Childhood vaccine confidence dipsīelief in the importance of childhood vaccination declined in 52 of 55 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a UNICEF report released last week.
