Members of the Orthodox Jewish Community turned out in droves to be vaccinated. In just three days, the health division administered 970 MMR vaccinations, and in one week the health department gave over 2,000 doses of MMR. 8/
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In reality, the situation in NY is more akin to that of the Somali immigrant community. Antivaxers took advantage of them by peddling antivax misinformation, and the result was two large measles outbreaks. 19/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/outbreaks-among-somali-immigrants-in-minnesota-thanks-for-the-measles-again-andy/ …
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Basically, I think what bugged me about
@RichardDawkins hot take on this is that it isn't really so much religion that is the main contributor to this outbreak. It's an insular community that doesn't trust outsiders targeted by quacks. Religion was not necessary. 20/20Show this thread -
One thing I forgot to mention. In the Detroit Orthodox Jewish community, measles didn't spread among unvaccinated children as much as it did among adults. Jews here vaccinate their children. However, many in their 50s thought they'd been vaccinated but hadn't been. 20a/20
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There was an unexpectedly large pool of adults who were, through no fault of their own, susceptible to measles, either due to not knowing they hadn't been vaccinated or to waning immunity. 20b/20
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Against HOW antivax misinformation spreads. I didn't mean to imply that Dawkins spreads antivax misinformation.
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