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I said it on the other thread, but I'll say it again here. Measles is crazy contagious, with an N0 of somewhere around 15. You basically need everyone vaccina
by dmoy 7y ago
I said it on the other thread, but I'll say it again here. Measles is crazy contagious, with an N0 of somewhere around 15. You basically need everyone vaccinated, because a full 2-3% of the people you give the vaccine to won't become immune, and that's like dangerously close to the level you need for herd immunity.
Somewhere around 0.2% of people (mostly kids?) die from it, in a modern country with a decent emergency medical system.
- nostrademons 7y agoAlso worth mentioning that the fatality rate of 0.1-0.2% is comparable to the fatality rate of coronavirus in healthy adults, and higher in kids. We're scared of coronavirus. We should be scared of measles when unvaccinated.
- HarryHirsch 7y agoThey should talk to the mothers about rubella and what it does to pregnant women, and they should talk to the fathers about orchitis in mumps and how exquisitely painful it is. The MMR shot protects against these two.
- cameldrv 7y agoIf there’s one thing I’ve come to appreciate more recently, it’s the unbelievably huge value we get from vaccines. The portion of the population that remembers Polio firsthand got too small, and some of society started to go insane.