Vax Talk

Nathan and Karen traveled to Seattle for the Washington State Immunization Summit to talk to attendees about vaccine hesitancy! This is the episode we have been waiting to do!

SLIDES FROM THIS EPISODE:

https://www.voicesforvaccines.org/content/uploads/2019/10/Vax-Talk-Live.pdf

Dorit Reiss's Doximity shout-out: https://opmed.doximity.com/articles/as-tiring-as-it-is-you-re-in-good-company-fighting-anti-vaxxers-says-this-legal-expert?_csrf_attempted=yes

Dr. Richard Pan has been a champion for community immunity his entire career, from his beginnings as a resident in Pittsburgh to his work in the California legislation to eliminate non-medical vaccine exemptions. We invited him to the show to give us the broad perspective of the work he has done and the work we all need to do.

Nurses Who Vaccinate's Melody Butler swung by the podcast and threw down the gauntlet, challenging Nathan to a trivia duel. Who knows more about vaccines and their history? Listen to find out.

Thank you to our friends at Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for the questions. Play for yourself at https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/parents-pack/play-just-vax-vaccine-trivia-game

Other sources include

History of Vaccines: https://www.historyofvaccines.org/

HPV and nuns (and a mythical creature): https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/29/health/29hpv.html

Continuing with our NIAM2019 GAME SHOW theme, this time inviting Keith Law to play Offit, Wakefield, or Dan Brown.

Keith Law is an ESPN contributor, baseball expert, author, and vaccine enthusiast, making him the perfect person to compete against Nathan in naming the author of various vaccine-related book excerpts.

Find Keith's book at: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062490223/smart-baseball/

You first met him on Facebook when he pretended to be customer service for Large Retail Store. Because he has also satirized the world's most notorious anti vaccine activists, we invited Ben Palmer to play Troll or Be Trolled in celebration of National Immunization Awareness Month. But the only trolling we do is trolling VPDs with our vaccines.

Most of the Tweets can be found the Voices4Vaccines handle--except Rob Schneider's because he has blocked us on Twitter.

August is the month every year that the U.S. celebrates the good work vaccines do in our community. For NIAM 2019, we have decided to celebrate with Game Show Month!

Our first game is Fact Checker. We invited health journalist Tara Haelle aboard to listen to a media interview with a self-proclaimed vaccine expert rebutting Jon Oliver.

Watch the original Jon Oliver piece here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VG_s2PCH_c

Watch the full rebuttal video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ViZRj4V1VM

Polio is *this close* to being eradicated, so we invited Rotary International's Dr. Carol Pandak to the show to discuss their mission to end polio.

In addition, Nathan and Karen discuss Jessica Biel and SB 276 as well as Karen's Big ACIP adventure, and other methods anti-vaccine activists use to legitimize their cause.

Links from the episode: https://www.endpolio.org/

https://jezebel.com/well-heres-jessica-biel-apparently-lobbying-california-1835444312

In this episode, Karen and Nathan discuss the latest measles outbreaks with Dr. Paul Offit. He takes us through how these outbreaks behave, what causes them, measles elimination, what measles is actually like, and how we can all work together to prevent future outbreaks.

Links from the show:

Marcia Brady: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/28/717595757/brady-bunch-episode-fuels-campaigns-against-vaccines-and-marcia-s-miffed

Bjarke Monsted: https://twitter.com/bjarkemoensted/status/1132851662136270848

New Maine law: http://time.com/5595862/maine-ends-exemptions-vaccinations/

VACCINES bill: https://schrier.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-schrier-introduces-bipartisan-bill-increase-immunizations-prevent-future

Teen who traveled to Romania and brought back measles: https://www.wired.com/2009/10/ff-waronscience/

In this special NIIW mini-episode, Karen talks to a different Dr. Nathan (Dr. Chomilo) about the 25th anniversary of National Infant Immunization Rates and how the reasons for not vaccinating have changed over the years. They also discuss current measles outbreaks.

Links/sources from the episode:

What is NIIW? https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/events/niiw/overview.html

StarTribune editorial: http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-s-disgraceful-do-nothing-session-on-measles-vaccine/508972482/

695 measles cases: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/health/measles-outbreaks-us.html

1989-1991 measles outbreak: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00017268.htm

A few months ago, Ethan Linenberger was just a teenager with a Reddit account. He used that account to find out how to get himself vaccinated, and now he is one of the youngest--and smartest--vaccine advocates around. We talked to him about vaccines, social media, and how teens can engage in this space.

Find Ethan at his website to learn more about what he has done: https://www.adolescentadvocate.com/