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I hear more people talking about anti-vaxxers than I do from any actual anti-vaxxers. I don't think they are all that powerful.
by owlninja 7y ago
I hear more people talking about anti-vaxxers than I do from any actual anti-vaxxers. I don't think they are all that powerful.
- mellavora 7y agoHuh. Wonder where you heard this? Perhaps you missed the recent American Academy of Family Physicians survey on the topic? Here is the NBC recap: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cold-and-flu/millennials-least-likely-get-flu-shot-anti-vax-beliefs-may-n1116601 https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cold-and-flu/millennials-leas...
- koheripbal 7y agoThis survey did not find that anti-vax had a meaningful impact on vaccination rates. The NBC article is poorly written and misleading.
- ceejayoz 7y agoThey're powerful enough. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/16/vaccines-measles-mumps-polio-hepatitis-b https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/16/vaccines-mea... > More than half the states in America have seen a decline over the past decade in the take-up rates among kindergarten children of vaccines against diseases such as measles, mumps, hepatitis B and polio, as unfounded anti-vaccination theories have spread. > The measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR), which is the focus of much activity by the so-called anti-vaxxer movement, is especially vulnerable. Alarmingly, the study finds that more than half of the states – 26 in total – have vaccination rates that have fallen below the target of 95% which experts state is needed to provide maximum protection against the diseases.