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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Feb 2020

      David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted CheraeK

      Those measles outbreaks in the US and Europe last year didn’t happen in areas of poor hygiene. Hygiene was fine in the 1980s/90s and Hib was killing 1K children a year in the US. It took the vaccine to stop it.🙄🤦🏻‍♂️ https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/haemophilus-influenzae-type-b-hib …https://twitter.com/RedDoesntRelent/status/1232389951041392640 …

      David Gorski, MD, PhD added,

      CheraeK @RedDoesntRelent
      Replying to @gorskon
      What say you to those who believe that vaccines are not the way to go because of the need for boosters vs actually gaining lifetime immunity. I understand 3rd world nations benefit still. I am 🤔 countries like the US with our advanced medicine and better hygiene standards.
      1 reply 10 retweets 57 likes
    2. CheraeK‏ @RedDoesntRelent 25 Feb 2020
      Replying to @gorskon

      Measles has a vaccine paradox and correct me if wrong, but weren’t those patients mostly vaccinate? So if vaccinated patients still got measles then that vaccine is flawed, and natural lifetime immunity is the only guarantee to prevention.

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Feb 2020
      Replying to @RedDoesntRelent

      No, in basically every outbreak, the vast majority of cases of measles are among the unvaccinated. It's not even close, and it makes sense, given that the vaccine is 95% effective when all boosters are received. https://vaxopedia.org/2019/02/14/vaccinated-vs-unvaccinated-measles-outbreak-edition/ …pic.twitter.com/0pLG9EyPRZ

      2 replies 1 retweet 8 likes
    4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Feb 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @RedDoesntRelent

      No vaccine is 100% effective, but the measles vaccine is damned good. During an outbreak, your chances of getting the measles is something like 25 times higher if you're unvaccinated against measles than if you've had the measles vaccine series.

      1 reply 2 retweets 7 likes
      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 25 Feb 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @RedDoesntRelent

      And, to preempt another antivax claim, it is NOT the vaccine strain that's been causing outbreaks.https://vaxopedia.org/2019/01/27/is-a-vaccine-strain-causing-the-latest-measles-outbreak/ …

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        2. CheraeK‏ @RedDoesntRelent 25 Feb 2020
          Replying to @gorskon

          So what would you say to someone who thinks that natural disease is better? Not that they disagree with the fact that vaccines work, but that the human body is better.

          14 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Jeff Enge‏ @JPESportsMiner 25 Feb 2020
          Replying to @RedDoesntRelent @gorskon

          I would ask: "Better" in what ways?

          1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
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