Media/Policy Watch
This section is intended to alert readers to substantive news, analysis and opinion from the general media on vaccines, immunization, global; public health and related themes. Media Watch is not intended to be exhaustive, but indicative of themes and issues CVEP is actively tracking. This section will grow from an initial base of newspapers, magazines and blog sources, and is segregated from Journal Watch above which scans the peer-reviewed journal ecology.

We acknowledge the Western/Northern bias in this initial selection of titles and invite suggestions for expanded coverage. We are conservative in our outlook in adding news sources which largely report on primary content we are already covering above. Many electronic media sources have tiered, fee-based subscription models for access. We will provide full-text where content is published without restriction, but most publications require registration and some subscription level.

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Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/
Accessed 11 July 2015
The California Child Vaccination Mandates And The Everlasting Cycle Of Infectious Diseases
Recent legislation mandating child vaccinations in California are a predictable response to an ongoing cycle of outbreaks and increased prevention-oriented behavior. This cycle arises when increasing risk of infection drives burgeoning demand for protection, which in turn drives down the rate of infection and future disease prevalence. Falling […]
Tomas Philipson, Contributor Jul 09, 2015

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New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
Accessed 11 July 2015
Health
Promise Is Seen in an Inexpensive Cholera Vaccine
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.JULY 8, 2015
An inexpensive, little-known cholera vaccine appears to work so well that it can protect entire communities and perhaps head off explosive epidemics like the one that killed nearly 10,000 Haitians in 2010.
A major study published on Wednesday in The Lancet found that the vaccine gave individuals more than 50 percent protection against cholera and reduced life-threatening episodes of the infection by about 40 percent in Bangladesh, where the disease has persisted for centuries.
In a result that surprised researchers, the vaccine worked far better than supplying families with chlorine for their water and soap for hand-washing.
The study is “really very important, and testing it in 270,000 people is phenomenal,” said Dr. Louise C. Ivers, a health policy adviser at Partners in Health, a medical charity that fights AIDS in Haiti and switched to treating cholera there after the earthquake.
“In the last five years, the conversation has switched from ‘We shouldn’t use vaccine’ to ‘How can we use it best?’ ”…

Facts & Figures: After Outbreaks, Vaccine Support Rises
July 7, 2015
A new poll, conducted after outbreaks of measles and whooping cough in several states, found that about a third of parents see more benefit in vaccines than they did a year ago, and a similar percentage are more supportive of requiring vaccines for school admission…