The "new" way is probably the old way: if you can't persuade them, use force. Meanwhile, 127+ children are getting robust, lifelong immunity the old way. And how many adverse vaccine reactions have there been? It's a trade-off. Let parents decide.https://twitter.com/AmeshAA/status/1097852042490593280 …
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Replying to @jorient
Parents should be responsible enough to protect their children from preventable diseases that have a potential for serious complications and in rare cases death. Measles out breaks are pointing out the importance of herd immunity. Is 1/1000 death ok to prevent 1/1,000,000 neg rxn
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Replying to @rlamartini
The numbers are not precisely known, and the calculation is (1/1000?) x risk of getting measles (1 in a million??) compared with (risk of serious vaccine reaction) x (number of children vaccinated). Second may be >> first. Answer varies depending on many factors.
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Replying to @jorient @rlamartini
I wonder how they manage to keep the incidence of measles so low. Is there some sort of vaccine?
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Replying to @Takethatdoctors @rlamartini
Smallpox vaccine too dangerous to use now because disease gone. Measles virtually gone in US--need vigilance, but risk still very low. Let people decide based on current circumstances and honest info about vaccine, which NOW kills more people than measles.
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Virtually gone in the US =/= Gone There were 110,000 measles deaths in 2017.
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Replying to @TinFoilAwards @jorient and
Hey, her organization is the Association of AMERICAN Physicians and Surgeons. She don't care about no dead children if they ain't American.
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Replying to @gorskon @TinFoilAwards and
That group is a bunch of right-wing nutjobs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physicians_and_Surgeons …
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That's putting it mildly.
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