Breaking news: The United States faces millions of measles cases over the next 25 years if vaccination rates for the disease drop 10 percent, according to new research published Thursday.
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Breaking news: The United States faces millions of measles cases over the next 25 years if vaccination rates for the disease drop 10 percent, according to new research published Thursday.
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At current state-level vaccination rates, the model predicts measles could become entrenched, resulting in “hundreds of thousands of cases, where deaths are commonplace and hospitalizations are happening all the time,” said Nathan Lo, a Stanford University physician.
For anyone curious about what was being said way back when the vaccine was distributed — this is an article from 1963. I wonder how they’d feel about where we are now. scratchpost.news/measles-vacc...
@washingtonpost.com You’re complicit in this. You left that part out.
FUN FACT: The measles vaccine was so successful it had effectively eliminated the virus until "anti-Vaxxers" like our now Secretary of Harm RFK Jr began their campaign to undermine public health to concentrate more wealth for oligarchs like WaPo's owner. bsky.app/profile/wash...
Breaking news: The United States faces millions of measles cases over the next 25 years if vaccination rates for the disease drop 10 percent, according to new research published Thursday.
It’s also worth reading Roald Dahl’s essay about his daughter Olivia. fs.blog/roald-dahl-l...