Der Verzicht auf Impfungen bei Kindern wird in den meisten Teilen der Vereinigten Staaten immer häufiger, wodurch größere Teile der Bevölkerung anfällig für vermeidbare Krankheiten wie Masern werden. Was den Trend antreibt: nichtmedizinische Gründe für Ausnahmen – oft beschrieben als religiöse oder persönliche Überzeugungen.

Patches of low vaccination in the US are becoming bigger, riskier holes

**Opting out of childhood vaccines is becoming more common across most of the United States, leaving larger shares of the population vulnerable to preventable diseases like measles**, which is continuing its record-breaking spread across the country.

Exemption rates for vaccines that are typically required to attend school have increased in more than half of US counties since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to new research published Wednesday in the medical journal JAMA.

**What’s driving the trend: nonmedical reasons for exemptions — often described as religious or personal beliefs**. However, exemptions for medical reasons – among those who are immunocompromised, for example, or those who have a severe allergy to a vaccine component or – have remained stable.

“The science behind immunizations has not changed in the past five years,” said ​Dr. Jesse Hackell, a pediatrician in New York. He is the lead author of a policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics that says that nonmedical exemptions to school immunization requirements should be eliminated.

“What has changed is the politics and the misinformation behind the discussion,” Hackell said. “But the science about the immunizations — that they’re safe, that they’re effective, that they reduce disease, that they reduce morbidity and mortality – there are no changes in that science.”

For those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2843870?guestAccessKey=310c24bc-8a41-42b2-9d62-9cc5824b4882

What’s really driving the trend: idiots and disinformation.

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This is really really bad if they thought falling birthrates was a problem then this is just a catastrophe waiting to happen…..

This is what happens when people get their science and news solely from social media especially Facebook. 

this is what happens when kids have not been taught to read properly since the 90s. teens and adults can’t read properly let alone assess sources of information for accuracy.

I often think of how civil liberties are going to survive in the era of the internet and the general intellect of the population. I don’t think they’re compatible