US childhood vaccination rates continue to drop. 95% → ~92%: Small numbers, big implications for public health 💉
(source New York Times @nytimes)
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@infobeautiful plus, new data showing that these vaccines help protect against alzheimers, this is terrible both for herd immunity, but also possibly long term for the individuals...
@infobeautiful Republicans are fucking idiots
@infobeautiful #EvolutionIsTrue. #Antivaxxers will eventually become extinct.
The #TrumpEffect is auto- #eugenics.
@infobeautiful I wonder if adults getting MMR booster shots could help cover for the too low levels of childhood vaccination. Maybe classrooms are just too much of a high transmission environment for the rest of the community to compensate, though.
We should stop quoting the vaccinated rate and start quoting the unvaccinated rate.
As in, the proportion of people unvaccinated has nearly doubled*, from 5% to 8%! Shock horror alarm.
*In journalistic terms it's sort of ok to describe 8 as nearly twice 5.