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LINK How vaccine hesitancy is contributing to rising rates of measles and COVID | PBS News Weekend

Vaccines have been proven to be an effective weapon against many diseases. Measles, for instance, was declared eliminated from the U.S. in 2000, and more recently, vaccines helped curb the spread of COVID. But both of those diseases are on the rise in 2024. PBS NewsHour digital health reporter Laura Santhanam joins John Yang to discuss why cases are climbing.

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snytiger6 9 Feb 26
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I remember when both types of polio vaccines came out, and how happy everyone was, and being able to follow through with plans to, for example, go to the beach, whereas before staying home at the slightest scare was the only way parents could try to save their kids, and watching public-service movies after lunch in school about how Little Emily was doing great in her Iron Lung and the camera pulling back at the end to show rows & rows of Little Emilys and the noise of the breathing apparatus growing louder and louder.
And I remember being lined up in the school corridors during the school day to get the sugar cube with the red goo and later the shot, and being watched to be sure I finished the red goo and the palpable relief everybody felt.
Yeah, let's bring on a Pandemic for every disease mankind ever suffered from......
Cholera, anyone?

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Go Darwin...

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Perhaps if Pitzer et al released trial data for peer review, rather than secreting it away, that may help. But once viewing the data, or lack of it, perhaps not.
The wankers never even tested if the covid jab stopped transmission, then insisted a certain percentage of population get it to create a herd immunity (only works if transmission stops).
Covid has no vaccine, measles does. How are people meant to know which is a real vaccine when this marketing ploy goes on? So some have rejected them all. You'll get that.

puff Level 8 Feb 26, 2024
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