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Does it bother you that schools ask for proof of measles vaccination? Most people recover from that too if infected during the school age years.
by lr4444lr 5y ago
Does it bother you that schools ask for proof of measles vaccination? Most people recover from that too if infected during the school age years.
- XorNot 5y agoMost being the operative word too: 1 in 1000 get encephalitis and brain damage, 1-3 in 1000 die! Measles R0 is also something absurd like 15, with spread characteristics of "a person with measles goes in an elevator - the next day a person gets in the same elevator and catches it".
- lr4444lr 5y agoFine, but if it's just a matter of degree, why would anyone want to keep spinning the evolution roulette wheel that might lead to a variant with significant vaccine breakthrough? This is a global pandemic that we have effective tools to fight not being fully utilized.