"Whooping cough is making a comeback" is not a headline I expected to see in my lifetime.
Thanks a lot, RFK Jr and Donald Trump!
"The flu vaccination rate for U.S. children has plummeted from about 64% five years ago to 49% this season."
The single cheapest, safest, easiest thing you can do to save a life is a vaccine.
The Dumbing of America... #Vaccines #Flu #Influenza #CDC #AntiVax #VacccinesSaveLives
https://apnews.com/article/flu-deaths-children-cdc-e79b1e4169d629ad4bc1095d95d82110
| Totgesagte leben länger – wie RFK Jr. einen gefährlichen Anti-Vaxxer-Mythos wiederbelebt
Was kann passieren, wenn ein #Wissenschaftsfeind für das #Gesundheitssystem verantwortlich ist? In den #USA macht #RFKJr es gerade vor. Im Moment versucht er, Mythen aus der #Impfgegner-Szene zu legitimieren. Mehr dazu im #SkeptixBlog.
#Flu #vaccinations may not prevent people from coming down w/symptoms, but research shows they are highly effective at preventing #hospitalizations & #deaths, O’Leary said, adding that the decline in vaccinations “is certainly playing a role” in this season’s loss of life.
The season has not only been hard on #children. #CDC ofcls describe it as “highly severe,” & estimate that so far there have been at least 47M illnesses, 610k hospitalizations & 26k deaths this season.
#CDC reports 216 #children died this #flu season, the most in 15 years
The deaths surpassed last year's total of 207, & are the highest number since the 2009-2010 H1N1 swine flu pandemic.
It’s startling that the number already is this high, given that the flu season is still going on. The final #pediatric #death tally for the 2023-2024 flu season wasn’t counted until autumn.
#AntiVax #ConspiracyTheories #RFKJr #Trump #PublicHealth #science #medicine #vaccines
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cold-and-flu/cdc-reports-216-child-deaths-flu-season-15-years-rcna204468
@broadwaybabyto We had a complete victory on measles, then antivax spread like a virus and now we got measles back...
GG humanity
It's not just the U.S. that's gone anti-vax bonkers. Measles cases across Europe increased 10x in 2024 compared to 2023. In the Americas they are already up 11-fold since last year.
The U.S. outbreak is now approaching 900, with 3 deaths, and dozens hospitalized.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/measles-cases-europe-americas-skyrocket
My Body, My Choice?
Well, yes, of course, but consider this: without a 5% increase in measles vaccine uptake, measles could once again become endemic in the U.S., while a 10% decline in vaccination rates could result in over 11 million measles cases and over 150,000 deaths per year.
And this is not just among the knuckleheads who choose not to vaccinate themselves and their children. Low vaccination rates eliminate the herd immunity that protects vulnerable people with impaired immunity like seniors, people with immunological illnesses, people with cancer, and all infants under the age of 12 months, as well as the 3% of healthy vaccinated individuals that the vaccine fails to protect.
"Les juifs contrôlent les médias", c'est le genre de propos échangés sans critique sur un groupe #antivax en ligne, composé de militant·es qui se revendiquent de la France Insoumise et de personnes engagées dans des associations d'entraide citoyenne (aide aux migrants, etc.).
L'#antisémitisme, ce "socialisme des imbéciles", imprègne à bas bruit nombre de sphères militantes de la gauche. Il faut s'y opposer.
Suivez @MartinEden, ses podcast sont précis et courageux !
If you received a measles #vaccine between 1963-1967, you may need to get a booster #MMR vaccine to regain immunity.
Nancy Lapid: US at tipping point for return of endemic #measles
"•US could see return to high levels of measles spread as vaccination rates fall
• So far this year, measles cases are up 180% over full-year 2024, #CDC reported
•US outbreak already is second highest in 25 years, CDC reported"
#health #antivax #healthcare
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-tipping-point-return-endemic-measles-2025-04-24/
If you were wondering how the whole #Measles #Vaccination #antivax thing was going, it's not going well: 800 cases through April 17th, 3 deaths, 85 hospitalized (so *not* a good time) and something like 5% of inpatient cases get sepsis, 10% of inpatient cases gets acute kidney failure, 12% get pneumonia, 2-3% get encephalitis, not to mention immune damage. Not a good time at all.
Wait. Maybe RFK Jr. is just trying to stop Musk. Have we tried explaining to him that autism doesn't cause fascism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn9-GT2iD2I
#homeopathy #antivax ppl drive me crazy. As far as I'm concerned they are a blight on society. They spread BS and put their children in harms way.
Crazy thing, half the ppl I've met who promote this bs are "nurses" (NOT RNs, certificate holders… no medial knowledge) and lawyers.
#WhoopingCough infections spike as #vaccination rates drop
The #US has reported more than 8,000 cases of whooping cough cases this year, more than double from this time last year. NBC News’ Sam Brock looks at the surge in this #contagious bacterial #infection that spreads through droplets.
“We’re seeing a return of #Dickensian #diseases” w/ the dissemination of anti-vaccine #ConspiracyTheories.
#PublicHealth #vaccines #HHS #RFKJr #Trump #Antivax #science #medicine
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/whooping-cough-infections-spike-as-vaccination-rates-drop-238123589553
It was bad enough, as a scientist at the dawn of the #antivax movement, watching #Wakefield's crimes. Knowing that we'd see a return of #measles deaths. Having to watch, helplessly, as measles deaths returned.
What I did Nazi coming, however, was the antivax movement leading directly to a program of industrialized state terror against autistic people
Ready for the next pandemic? Probably not. And who could blame you? The current one has been so much fun.
A recent study indicated that only 1/4 of Americans even understand that they can catch H5N1. And over 60% say they'd refuse, or aren't sure they'd get, a new H5N1 vaccine once it was available.
