Many cases reported in the United States this year were linked to international travel, according to the C.D.C., as travel destinations such as Britain, Austria and the Philippines have had outbreaks. Many of the people in the United States who have been infected have been unvaccinated children age 12 months and older.
People who choose not to vaccinate their children are unfit parents. Unless the child is not medically able to take vaccines, it’s the same as not feeding them, or failing to meet other basic survival needs. Additionally, they’re endangering other children who have a legitimate medical reason for avoiding vaccines. The Department of Children’s Services should become involved.
For what it’s worth, babies under 12 months are not typically given the measles vaccine. We specifically asked our doctor if we could get our 9 month old vaccinated early in light of the outbreak. They wouldn’t do it.
Asking about it shows that you accept science and give a damn. More parents should follow your example!
Yea, our 1 year old just got her first MMR shot. I think it’s a series though so she may only be partially protected at this point.
It’s really fucking infuriating that this is a thing at all in 2024.
Oh you see they are busy giving their kids homeopathy “medicine” while cursing the austism bestowing vaccines as the work of evil science…
Just wait for Polio to come back. Maybe then people will remember how important these basic vaccines are. Effects will be horrifying but that seems necessary for people that don’t vaccinate their children.
I’m curious to see the voting trends of the parents…
I think you already know
This seems like a non-partisan thing that only became partisan recently. Look at RFK Jr, a lifelong Democrat who pushes anti-vaccine misinformation.
Here’s how I see events:
- GOP has White House when COVID happens and they push for vaccine availability
- Democrats criticize GOP response saying vaccines should be mandatory
- GOP pushes back saying it should be optional
- Anti-vaccine groups latch on to the GOP since they both oppose mandatory vaccination
If Democrats were in power, they likely wouldn’t have pushed for mandatory vaccination, so the anti-vaccine crowd probably wouldn’t have allied with the GOP (I’m guessing the GOP wouldn’t criticized slow development of the vaccine or something).
Most people are vaccinated, so vaccination is absolutely the majority in both parties. Anti-vaccine groups are like any other conspiracy group, they’ll join with whichever larger group seems to be more sympathetic at the time.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The rise in cases should “alert us, rather than alarm us,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the C.D.C.
Doctors say there are several factors contributing to the spread of measles, cases of which have climbed across the globe in recent years.
So far, cases have appeared in at least 17 U.S. states: Arizona, California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington and Florida.
In Florida, the state surgeon general released guidance that contradicted widespread medical advice and allowed parents to send unvaccinated children to school amid a measles outbreak.
issued a health advisory encouraging parents to vaccinate children older than six months before traveling internationally, regardless of their destination.
Those kinds of conversations — parents seeking health information directly from doctors that they trust — can be a vital tool in what Dr. Daskalakis views as an “uphill battle.”
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