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Vaccination Rates in The US Could Be Close to a Dangerous Tipping Point
https://www.sciencealert.com/ ^ | 16 January 2024 | ByDAVID NIELD

Posted on 01/15/2024 5:19:25 PM PST by RomanSoldier19

Experts from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US are warning that the country is close to a vaccination tipping point: a point where there aren't enough vaccinated people to protect the unvaccinated, leading to deaths that would otherwise have been prevented.

A new commentary, written by FDA Commissioner Robert Califf and FDA vaccine regulator Peter Marks, highlights COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus as three diseases where vaccinations are crucial in protecting communities.

Measles also gets a mention, with a record number of people no longer getting vaccinated against it. That has meant a number of recent outbreaks, including one in Ohio where 36 children had to be hospitalized because of complications from the measles infection.

"An increasing number of people in the US are now declining vaccination for a variety of reasons, ranging from safety concerns to religious beliefs," write the FDA experts.

(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bcw; covaxbs; covid; covid19; disease; flu; influenza; measles; respiratoryvirus; science; syncytialvirus
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To: OHPatriot

What you said!

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41 posted on 01/15/2024 5:54:49 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever https://www.timesofisrael war again.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

β€œ Why do we need vaccines in a day of vitamins and antibiotics?”

Polio is the first one that comes to mind.


42 posted on 01/15/2024 5:54:57 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: Waryone

I had measles too. I survived it. I think I was in the third grade


43 posted on 01/15/2024 5:55:03 PM PST by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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To: babble-on

You can count me and my wife as two people who will never get another vaccine. But we will take our vitamin D. The parma people have played the vaccine game too long. We are getting vaccinated for diseases that we should be getting, not avoiding. Lose weight, take your vitamins, you will be fine. And notice they let everyone through the border. If they really cared about vaccines they would not let people flow into this country.


44 posted on 01/15/2024 5:55:08 PM PST by poinq (thics and customs and did not take an oath to the country. And did not follow the country's traditio)
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To: jacknhoo

(Couldn’t have anything to do with 15 million new unvaccinated 3rd world parolees invited in and their anchor babies, now could it…)

Yep. They ain’t too worried about them....

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45 posted on 01/15/2024 5:55:32 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, y bought, they sold ......)
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To: VanShuyten

Polio vaccine killed thousands of people and infected them with polio.


46 posted on 01/15/2024 5:55:43 PM PST by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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To: RomanSoldier19

When you tell lies, people quit believing you.


47 posted on 01/15/2024 5:56:14 PM PST by Spok (It takes a lot of learning to understand how little we know. (Paraphrasing Thomas Sowell.))
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To: Waryone

The ONLY vaccine I have ever had in my life was smallpox, went through all the normal diseases and came through just fine! I am 70 NEVER had a flu shot either, I got Covid YES I was sick HOWEVER did not go near a Dr. or emergency room hunkered down doubled up on the normal supplements and came through just fine!! I have gotten to the point of NOT TRUSTING anyone in the med profession anymore!!


48 posted on 01/15/2024 5:56:17 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: RomanSoldier19

In the early 1960s I remember the polio sugar cube vaccine. An uncle I never got to meet died from polio.
Measles, polio, smallpox etc used to be feared. How many of these infirmities are being reintroduced? The DemocRAT Governors and Mayors complaining about too many illegal trespassers will ignore this aspect of unbridled trespassing.


49 posted on 01/15/2024 5:56:31 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: RomanSoldier19

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You can’t make this pathetic government shxt up.


50 posted on 01/15/2024 5:58:45 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

guess they never heard of The Boy Who Cried Wolf...


51 posted on 01/15/2024 5:59:27 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Everybody just needs to take Vitamin D. Supposedly that will kill the virus. I was taking vitamin D, not because of the virus, but because my doctor recommend it. I never got Covid, and I fall into the high risk category.


52 posted on 01/15/2024 6:02:00 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: dforest

A very good friend of mine had every vaccine and booster when Covid started. She is the only person who had covid. She had it twice, the second time, she was quite sick. I did her shopping for her. That was more than a year ago.

She called me yesterday. She had surgery scheduled this week for carpal-tunnel problem. Woke up sick, Covid again.

I’m not a fan of inoculations. My sister talked me into getting a flu shot back in the ‘70s. Caught flu two weeks later. End of flu shots. Also the end of flu. Never got it again.


53 posted on 01/15/2024 6:04:05 PM PST by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: RomanSoldier19
As far as Covid is concerned, on January 5th, 2024, daily new Covid cases in the US were less than 1/3 of what they were on that date last year. Daily deaths were about 1/5th of what they were on that date last year.

For five months, every week I see media claims of a new "surge" in cases" and "highly infectious" new variants. It isn't happening.
54 posted on 01/15/2024 6:04:42 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: roving

β€œ The inactivated polio vaccines are very safe.[2] Mild redness or pain may occur at the site of injection.[2] Oral polio vaccines cause about three cases of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis per million doses given.[2] This compares with 5,000 cases per million who are paralysed following a polio infection.[8]”

From Wiki.


55 posted on 01/15/2024 6:09:25 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: Twotone

Daisy is due for vax in September. I feel the same way about shots, but I feed two stray cats on the deck and she’s fairly friendly with the big male. We did manage to catch him a few. years ago with help of SPCA trap/ They neutered him, gave him shots and brought him back. But the little female stray has not been caught and she and Daisy will get into fights if I’m not out with them.


56 posted on 01/15/2024 6:11:41 PM PST by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: RomanSoldier19
why is the FDA writing any type of vaccine commentary
FDA is not a public health org.
FDA has zero credibility with americans
57 posted on 01/15/2024 6:30:55 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

they have already admitted taking the vaccination doesn’t prevent you from spreading the virus to others anyway, so this makes no sense.


58 posted on 01/15/2024 6:32:17 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: RomanSoldier19

Where’s the outrage on unvaxxed illegal aliens? FU FDA.


59 posted on 01/15/2024 6:46:05 PM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: RomanSoldier19

60 posted on 01/15/2024 6:51:39 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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