A comment on the image choice (not the story): If the image here wasn't a macro-lens photo of a needle, but rather a child suffering from a preventable illness, would the discourse around it be different?https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/03/measles-outbreak-vaccination-1192887 …
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(But it was the live typhoid vaccine, which took half a week for the course, that made me feel the worse — a sick-like unpleasantness would settle on me for half a day after taking each dose, coupled with stomach issues. But I finished the course, like a good patient.)
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All of which to say is: needles are kind of disturbing imagery. There may be some deep-seated fear of "penetration" with sharp things, it may be something else, I don't know. Using them to symbolize vaccines probably tilts the discussion in the wrong direction.
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