There’s a big measles outbreak in New York affecting unvaccinated and under-vaccinated Orthodox Jewish people. Why? Anti-vaccine propagandists are distributing misinformation in the community. My story:https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/11/9/18068036/measles-new-york-orthodox-jewish-community-vaccines …
I wonder how much conflation there is between this and the children killed by circumcision. When talking about infant mortality rates you can't just infer causation from correllation so easily, there are SO many confounding factors.
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This is their data. Does that really look like a linear regression to you? What would happen if you included more than just the "top 30" or so countries? Like yeah there is a bit of a statistical correllation but it's DEFINITELY not conclusive enough to say cause and effectpic.twitter.com/zctzOYxTLB
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they said correlation was 0.7 which is pretty strong correlation, but not perfect or direct. My USA is #37 and we used to be #1 on that statistic. We lead the world in vaccines and we're not helping ourselves. It is just increasing our medical costs with so many negatives.
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America has so many problems though... unnecessary surgery, uncontrolled lead, opioid epidemics, healthcare that's profit-driven or entirely unaffordable, poverty in general, violence, parents in prison, lousy mental health support, poor education... so many factors influence it
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you're right. It is appalling that in our medical system all of our prices on individual procedures are double (or much more than double) what they are in any other country. IMHO it is dysfunctional as can be and intended to be so. Profits matter, public good doesn't.
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