So how does not vaccinating children because of anti-vax nonsense and unnecessary religious exemptions help the situation of suboptimal vaccination rates? That seems pretty obvious.
The problem with using NIS data is that it's not always possible to get granular detail on pockets of vaccine-refusal, and these are the biggest issues in terms of disease outbreaks
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This is because herd immunity is compromised below a threshold, which for measles is extremely high. So a relatively small number of kids who aren't vaccinated can infect quite a few people
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But regardless of this, there is are numerous programs that focus on fixing the other vaccination issues - poverty, lack of access etc - but that doesn't mean that anti-vaccine advocacy is any less of an issue
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