Anti-vaccination stronghold in NC hit with worst chickenpox outbreak in 20 years
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Re: Anti-vaccination stronghold in NC hit with worst chickenpox outbreak in 20 years
#2We need to figure out how to better persuade people to get their kids vaccinated. Perhaps a mix of education targeted at families who claim these exemptions, and fines to represent the negative externality of their choices?
Re: Anti-vaccination stronghold in NC hit with worst chickenpox outbreak in 20 years
#3We need to figure out how to better persuade people to get their kids vaccinated. Perhaps a mix of education targeted at families who claim these exemptions, and fines to represent the negative externality of their choices?
or just make vaccines mandatory for every child able to have them?
Re: Anti-vaccination stronghold in NC hit with worst chickenpox outbreak in 20 years
#4This is hilarious. Most of Western Europe does not vaccinate against chickenpox.
https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?...
There are 600,000 cases every year just in the UK, but the Washington Post doesn't even bother mentioning that there is a disagreement between national health organizations about the cost benefit trade-off of vaccinating against chickenpox.
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#6This is hilarious. Most of Western Europe does not vaccinate against chickenpox. https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?... There are 600,000 cases every year just in the UK, but the Washington Post doesn't even bother mentioning that there is a disagreement between national health organizations about the cost benefit trade-off of vaccinating against chickenpox.
You are getting voted down, but I _wanted_ all my kids to get chicken pox. We tried to get them together with other kids that have it so they could get it.
Everyone got chicken pox decades ago, it was expected. No one cared. Why does anyone care now?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity (in case it is the misspelling that is keeping you in the dark). It is all about reducing the probability to almost zero once you hit a threshold.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
> "In a population in which a large number of individuals are immune, chains of infection are likely to be disrupted, which stops or slows the spread of disease. The greater the proportion of individuals in a community who are immune, the smaller the probability that those who are not immune will come into contact with an infectious individual."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity#Free_riding
> "Herd immunity is vulnerable to the free rider problem. Individuals who lack immunity, primarily those who choose not to vaccinate, free ride off the herd immunity created by those who are immune. As the number of free riders in a population increases, outbreaks of preventable diseases become more common and more severe due to loss of herd immunity."
Re: Anti-vaccination stronghold in NC hit with worst chickenpox outbreak in 20 years
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#10This is hilarious. Most of Western Europe does not vaccinate against chickenpox. https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?... There are 600,000 cases every year just in the UK, but the Washington Post doesn't even bother mentioning that there is a disagreement between national health organizations about the cost benefit trade-off of vaccinating against chickenpox.
You are getting voted down, but I _wanted_ all my kids to get chicken pox. We tried to get them together with other kids that have it so they could get it. Everyone got chicken pox decades ago, it was expected. No one cared. Why does anyone care now?
Because Shingles is awful, for one.