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Measles Will Become Epidemic Unless We Compel Immunization
Vidcast: https://youtu.be/frbow4n-VoM
This is a wake up call for the US, Britain, Ireland, Italy, and Australia that comes from Italy’s Bocconi University and Bruno Kessler Foundation. Researchers there crunched the numbers using a computer model and simulated the characteristics of measles immunity between 2018 and 2050 in these countries as well as in South Korea and Singapore.
The study projections show that by 2050, only South Korea and Singapore would have the required 7.5% of their populations immune to measles and thereby escape a string of measles epidemics. At the current rates of vaccination in the other countries, none of them would reach the 7.5% target.
The CDC is webcasting a seminar this week for clinicians to help them cope with this year’s measles outbreak. Although 95% of Americans have immunity to measles either by having had the disease or by vaccination, 1 in every 12 children in the US fail to receive their first dose of MMR vaccine on time. Most of the cases of measles that enter the US occur in unvaccinated Americans who have been traveling abroad.
Public health officials and practicing clinicians know the answer to this problem. It is time to develop some political courage and make measles vaccinations mandatory. Those who oppose vaccination have only pseudo-science and discredited research to back up their position.
Let’s move to protect our children and ourselves by demanding that our local, state, and federal politicians act to insure 100% immunity in the USA to measles and other dread diseases.
Filippo Trentini, Piero Poletti, Alessia Melegaro, Stefano Merler. The introduction of ‘No jab, No school’ policy and the refinement of measles immunisation strategies in high-income countries. BMC Medicine, 2019; 17 (1) DOI: 10.1186/s12916-019-1318-5
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USCDC/bulletins/2452548
#Measles #MMR #vaccination #antivaxx
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By Howard G. Smith MD, AMVidcast: https://youtu.be/frbow4n-VoM
This is a wake up call for the US, Britain, Ireland, Italy, and Australia that comes from Italy’s Bocconi University and Bruno Kessler Foundation. Researchers there crunched the numbers using a computer model and simulated the characteristics of measles immunity between 2018 and 2050 in these countries as well as in South Korea and Singapore.
The study projections show that by 2050, only South Korea and Singapore would have the required 7.5% of their populations immune to measles and thereby escape a string of measles epidemics. At the current rates of vaccination in the other countries, none of them would reach the 7.5% target.
The CDC is webcasting a seminar this week for clinicians to help them cope with this year’s measles outbreak. Although 95% of Americans have immunity to measles either by having had the disease or by vaccination, 1 in every 12 children in the US fail to receive their first dose of MMR vaccine on time. Most of the cases of measles that enter the US occur in unvaccinated Americans who have been traveling abroad.
Public health officials and practicing clinicians know the answer to this problem. It is time to develop some political courage and make measles vaccinations mandatory. Those who oppose vaccination have only pseudo-science and discredited research to back up their position.
Let’s move to protect our children and ourselves by demanding that our local, state, and federal politicians act to insure 100% immunity in the USA to measles and other dread diseases.
Filippo Trentini, Piero Poletti, Alessia Melegaro, Stefano Merler. The introduction of ‘No jab, No school’ policy and the refinement of measles immunisation strategies in high-income countries. BMC Medicine, 2019; 17 (1) DOI: 10.1186/s12916-019-1318-5
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USCDC/bulletins/2452548
#Measles #MMR #vaccination #antivaxx