The history of medicine is filled with devoted people who want to understand and solve problems, mistakes, wrong guesses, at least partial successes, effects, even highly valued ones, that are frankly not fully understood, snake oil, and in this country, grasping for money. But it's most likely very fair to say that the most powerful and successful medical development is vaccines.
"Pennsylvania requires certain vaccinations for school attendance, but it allows exemptions for medical reasons, religious beliefs, and strong moral, ethical, or philosophical convictions. Religious and philosophical exemption statements do not have to be renewed each year." PA, and maybe other states, may allow this, but it's a huge mistake. As you describe, infectious diseases are not confined to the individual who chooses not to get vaccinated. That person is making a decision that affects everyone. If a given state legalized suicide, it would not legalize suicide by atomic bomb. That affects many more people than the one who doesn't want to live any more.
This is ironclad proof that vaccinations work! The only reason some very ignorant people believe that vaccinations cause autism is because the symptoms of autism often become apparent when babies are getting to their vaccinations. There is no cause and effect. The autism was probably there all along!
A message for parents. Just vaccinate the kids you want to live.
The history of medicine is filled with devoted people who want to understand and solve problems, mistakes, wrong guesses, at least partial successes, effects, even highly valued ones, that are frankly not fully understood, snake oil, and in this country, grasping for money. But it's most likely very fair to say that the most powerful and successful medical development is vaccines.
"Pennsylvania requires certain vaccinations for school attendance, but it allows exemptions for medical reasons, religious beliefs, and strong moral, ethical, or philosophical convictions. Religious and philosophical exemption statements do not have to be renewed each year." PA, and maybe other states, may allow this, but it's a huge mistake. As you describe, infectious diseases are not confined to the individual who chooses not to get vaccinated. That person is making a decision that affects everyone. If a given state legalized suicide, it would not legalize suicide by atomic bomb. That affects many more people than the one who doesn't want to live any more.
This is ironclad proof that vaccinations work! The only reason some very ignorant people believe that vaccinations cause autism is because the symptoms of autism often become apparent when babies are getting to their vaccinations. There is no cause and effect. The autism was probably there all along!
It is past the time to fire RFK, Jr.
His decision to NOT recommend the use of the MMR Vaccine has now killed 6 Americans people--4 in Pennsylvania very recently.
I'm a retired Emergency Physician.
I know the science and the research that supports the use of vaccines to provide protection from a large number of infectious diseases....
By the way, Measles was declared eradicated from the USA in 2000. And there were no measles deaths in the USA from 2000 through 2015.
That was entirely due to near universal vaccination!
FIRE RFK, JR. NOW!
HE IS DANGEROUS--HIS BELIEFS CONCERNING VACCINES HAVE KILLED AMERICANS!
I couldn't agree more!