3 ms·
She's right though, vaccination for anyone should be weighed against the risk. We spend considerable amounts of money ensuring that vaccinations are safe and e
by DanBC 7y ago
She's right though, vaccination for anyone should be weighed against the risk.
We spend considerable amounts of money ensuring that vaccinations are safe and effective, and we only recommend vaccination if they are safe and effective and if the very small risks (and all interventions have risks) make sense against the disease being vaccinated against.
In the case of measles there are considerable risks of death or life long harm, so this balancing question is easy.
Maybe we need better ways of telling people like her about how the risks are weighed up, because at the moment she has multi-millionaires (trying to sell her vitamin pills) telling her things she wants to hear and that make sense to her. Clearly we (the people who want her to vaccinate) are failing to communicate.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoI broadly agree: I think part of the problem is those in government, including on issues of healthcare, have lied in the past. Trust is easily lost and very hard to win back. You can win people back by lying more (Brexit!), short termist (advertisers, politicians) need not worry about that, but it creates even more harm down the road.