As state considers vaccine changes, new online tool examines sickness, death, cost impacts

Chickenpox appears as a rash that turns into itchy, fluid-filled blisters that eventually scab over, according to the CDC.(Photo via the CDC) What would result if Florida reduces the number of vaccines Florida children are required to receive to attend school and daycare? The answers to those questions may be found on an interactive dashboard dubbed VaxImpactMap, published by the Emory Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Lead developer Ben Lopman, a professor of epidemiology and global health at Emory Rollins, says he and other researchers at the university have been studying vaccine efficacy for more than a decade. They ve been working on the VaxImpactMap for about nine months. The latest version comes as the DeSantis administration moves ahead with plans to eliminate four vaccines from the list of shots children are required to take to enter public school or daycare. The Florida Department of Health will hold a rule-making workshop on the proposed new regulation Thu