Seit mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert haben Impfstoffe einen bemerkenswerten Erfolg, um die tödlichsten und verheerendsten Infektionskrankheiten im Kindesalter auszurotten, Millionen von Leben zu retten und eine relative goldene Ära der globalen öffentlichen Gesundheit zu errichten, dank wissenschaftlicher Fortschritte.
Aber jetzt ist Amerika gefährlich zurückliegt.
Die überwiegende Mehrheit der Bezirke in den Vereinigten Staaten hat eine sinkende Impfraten und ist laut einer NBC News -Untersuchung seit Jahren die umfassendste Analyse von Impfungen und Schulbefreiungen.
In dieser sechsmonatigen Untersuchung wurden in Zusammenarbeit mit der Stanford University ein großes Mengen an Daten von staatlichen Regierungen und Archiven für öffentliche Aufzeichnungen gesammelt, die Jahre oder Jahrzehnte zurückreichen.
"Wenn die Impfraten bei Kindern sinken, werden wir mehr Krankheiten wie Masern sehen," Dr. Sean O’Leary, ein Experte für Infektionskrankheiten an der American Academy of Pediatrics, sagte über die Ergebnisse. "Und wir werden sehen, wie mehr Kinder – tragisch – an Krankheiten sterben, die im Wesentlichen völlig vermeidbar sind."
Wie wir unsere Forschung erhielten: Dies war eine wichtige Schlussfolgerung einer sechsmonatigen NBC-Nachrichtenuntersuchung in Zusammenarbeit mit der Stanford University, was zu einer umfassendsten Analyse von Impfungen und Schulausnahmen führte.
NBC News sammelte massive Mengen an Daten von Regierungen des Landes und Archiven der öffentlichen Aufzeichnungen, die Jahre oder Jahrzehnte zurückreichen. Mit Hilfe von Forschern von Infektionskrankheiten in Stanford reichten NBC News eine Reihe von Anfragen für Dokumente ein, einschließlich Materialien, die im Rahmen des Freedom of Information Act erhalten wurden, und ringen verschiedene Arten von Daten in ein standardisiertes Format, um die Zinssätze über Tausende von Landkreisen hinweg zu kartieren und zu vergleichen.
Mehr zu unserem, wie wir die Geschichte hier bekommen haben: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/vaccine-children-exemption-data-measles-metology-rcna229853
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Would be helpful to have a different contrasting color for areas with no data available. I have a hard time believing that Mississippi, Arkansas, and West Virginia are the most vaccinated states in the country
Hi u/nbcnews. Pretty good visualization, but its not very clear what’s going on with a few states. Are they state-wide averages? If so, why – when the rest seem to be by county? Are they states without data? If so – then it would be better to show that with a color not already on your color gradient.
Another point: of the cut off under discussion is at 95%, a color scheme that makes that cut off more clear would make more sense imho.
Cheers 👍
I think a better visualization would compare the change in number of vaccinations over the last 6 months compared to the number of vaccinations in a 6 month time period 5 or 10 years ago. The percentage increase/decrease in each state would show where the antivaccination movement is actually gaining ground. Many of these places that have low vaccination rates may have always had low vax rates, and this antivax movement didn’t do anything at all. From a „where do we need to educate“ perspective, seeing the change over time would be helpful.
I love seeing good information about public health. This is not beautiful data viz though. Too much ambiguity.
They’re going to end up as outliers for previously eradicated diseases in the developed world just like gun violence, where they explore every possible cause apart from the blindingly obvious.
It’s quite a thing to see a whole country slide back into obscurantism. The right-wing death cult in this country is going to get hundreds of thousands of people killed for no other reason than their own stupidity.
But our leader is a very stable genius. Kennedy surely is too? Right? Right?
It would be, sadly, interesting to see how outbreaks in communities impact the vaccination rate; say the recent one in Texas.
With so much skepticism over „official“ encouragements, wonder if personal exposure to more concrete evidence drives a change. The new generation of parents are those who were never exposed to the horrors of a non-vaccinated society, and which a subset is skeptical of professional expertise.
Good, let the viruses finish the job
A report just came out that said only 64% of kindergarten kids are vaccinated in my county, which is a blue dot in a very red state.
I’m so tired of living around these people and frankly I’m a little scared of walking around with so little care for theirs and their kid’s health.
I only hope RFKjr lives long enough to see the price innocents had to pay for his ignorance. I sadly want the red states to feel the pain of their ignorance as well. Does that make me a bad person, probably, but being fully vaccinated I can live with that.
Ngl pretty proud of my state on the whole, though startling that cook county is slipping as it’s by far the biggest county in the state.
I bet this would have a correlation with literacy rates, though of course that doesn’t mean causality but I’ll draw my personal assumptions on that
The federal government response to COVID destroyed trust in key institutions that went far beyond making recommendations based on good science, to advocating policy positions and prescriptions.
New Mexico is interesting to me. Does anyone know why? I thought this was a political thing, but NM was a blue state last I looked.
Is it more than just the anti vaxxer movement at play?
The scale is upside down. 80% should be on the bottom, and 100% at the top.