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A small but increasing number of children in the United States are not getting some or all of their recommended vaccinations. The percentage of children under 2 years old who haven't received any vaccinations has quadrupled in the last 17 years, according to federal health data released Thursday.
Overall, immunization rates remain high and haven't changed much at the national level. But a pair of reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about immunizations for preschoolers and kindergartners highlights a growing concern among health officials and clinicians about children who aren't getting the necessary protection against vaccine-preventable diseases, such as measles, whooping cough and other pediatric infectious diseases.
The vast majority of parents across the country vaccinate their children and follow recommended schedules for this basic preventive practice. But the recent upswing in vaccine skepticism and outright refusal to vaccinate has spawned communities of undervaccinated children who are more susceptible to disease and pose health risks to the broader public.
[...] The data underlying the latest reports do not explain the reason for the increase in unvaccinated children. In some cases, parents hesitate or refuse to immunize, officials and experts said. Insurance coverage and an urban-rural disparity are likely other reasons for the troubling rise.
Among children aged 19 months to 35 months in rural areas, about 2 percent received no vaccinations in 2017. That is double the number of unvaccinated children living in urban areas.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 13 2018, @09:52AM (1 child)
What I wrote in previous post is based on my experience and probably related to my environment. I have personally met a few people which were against vaccinations and I could classify them to two categories:
- Religious people who don't want to use vaccines because this is against their gods' intention, holly texts, it prevents salvation, etc. With them, any discussion is just not possible. As with all radically religious people, they are irrational not only in this part.
- People, usually who met with side effects personally or by their closest family, who got then ignored by doctors and want to know more about things I wrote earlier.
I'm not sure about other groups, the Internet now is full of American trolls, useful idiots, extremists (although I found that most of these Internet anti-vaccination groups are mostly made of people from my first category) so it's based on my personal discussions.
About this autism-vaccinations link, I found that the first group seems to indeed believe in this part, but this all autism stuff is based on research now repeated without success and the problem with previous research has been already discovered (although it's a hard pill to swallow in modern political propaganda). Now this debunked autism link seems to be used to distract from openness, which is a fuel for all other anti-vaccination groups.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 13 2018, @02:17PM
The call for openness and more information is a red herring.
Vaccines aren't made in some guy's bathtub with no oversight, procedure, or quality control and their mechanism of action isn't a trade secret or a mystery.
Side effects are not hidden, they are required to be listed as well as a code that is traceable to when, where, and which specific batch that dose came from.
The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System records every single adverse event that could even be tangentially associated with vaccination and the events can be reported or searched by anyone.
https://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html [cdc.gov]
https://vaers.hhs.gov/reportevent.html [hhs.gov]