While we debate the ethics/legality of forced vaccinations, perhaps a more effective method: deny WIC checks and Medicaid benefits to families that refuse to vaccinate.
Will certainly enhance compliance. @doritmi @PeterHotez @gorskon
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Replying to @MedicalHalakhah @doritmi and
I’m wary of using government services to poor people as a cudgel if we don’t also use them as a cudgel on wealthy people. If we made Pell grants and the mortgage interest deduction dependent on vaccine compliance, there’d be more compliance.
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Replying to @scarabbi @MedicalHalakhah and
David's approach is misguided in the extreme. Lack of vaccine uptake among the poor is usually due to lack of access, not refusal due to antivaccine beliefs. Targeting Medicaid and WIC might enhance compliance, but the numbers will be small because the poor aren't the problem.
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Understood. I should have clarified that I was referring more specifically to the current situation in Brooklyn, where I believe it would be particularly effective.
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I highly doubt that it would be particularly effective.
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