But let’s start from an objective baseline. The CDC Guidelines would have a baby get 21 vaccines by six months of age.
Posted on 01/24/2025 4:53:41 PM PST by nickcarraway
Hesitancy over the COVID-19 vaccine is leading some parents to skip important vaccinations for their children.
Young children of parents who declined the COVID vaccine are about 25% less likely to get the standard measles/mumps/rubella (MMR) vaccine, researchers reported in a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health.
Public health officials are worried that a decline in vaccine coverage will cause an increase in highly contagious childhood diseases like measles.
Last year, 16 measles outbreaks were reported, compared with four outbreaks reported in 2023, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
"In the United States, we are experiencing a concerning resurgence of childhood vaccine-preventable diseases," researcher Dr. Ben Rader, a computational epidemiologist with Boston Children's Hospital, said in a news release.
"Our research suggests that COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy has fueled increasing MMR vaccine hesitancy, leaving children more vulnerable to highly contagious and life-threatening illnesses like measles," he added.
For the study, researchers analyzed responses from nearly 20,000 parents of children younger than 5 to a digital health survey conducted from July 2023 to April 2024.
Children of parents who got at least one COVID jab had higher MMR vaccination rates—nearly 81%, compared to just under 61% for children of unvaccinated parents, researchers found.
Politics also played a role in childhood vaccinations. Republican parents were 27% less likely to have their kids get the MMR vaccine than Democratic parents.
"Our research highlights the link between parental characteristics and MMR vaccine uptake, showing how pandemic-related hesitancy may affect other routine vaccines," lead researcher Eric Zhou, a pediatrics instructor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, said in a news release.
Overall, MMR vaccination rates were higher in the Midwest and Northeast than in the South or West.
Parents on Medicare or Medicaid were about 15% less likely to have their kids get the MMR jab than parents with private insurance, results show.
"Addressing these disparities, through equitable access and fostering trust and transparency in vaccine safety, is key to protecting children from preventable diseases like measles," Zhou concludes.
More information: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more on measles outbreaks.
Eric Geng Zhou et al, Parental Factors Associated With Measles–Mumps–Rubella Vaccination in US Children Younger Than 5 Years, American Journal of Public Health (2025). DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2024.307912
Journal information: American Journal of Public Health
Good! Why do we need vaccinations with healthy eating and antibiotics ?
My children have all their (normal attenuated virus) TDP, etc shots but never the CCP-19 shot. At their ages (pre teen then) I saw no justification for it.
Covid vaxxx sucked so hard it put lots of people off of vaccines generally.
It did for me. I now refuse the flu shot. I have no trust left.
Yeah. Eff the vaxxholes who create diseases to force vaxxes on people. Nobody in my family got vaxxed and none of us has had covid in 4 years. Also my wife broke up the MMR for our kids into three different shots over an extended period of time. Injecting children with that much poison at once is horrible. Wish they didn’t get them at all.
The vaccine schedule before the late 80s-90s I don’t take as much issue with. And even those could afford to be spread out and not given so young.
“Covid vaxxx sucked so hard it put lots of people off of vaccines generally. It did for me. I now refuse the flu shot. I have no trust left.”
ditto ... furthermore, the perpetual stream of shifting lies by the FDA and CDC destroyed their credibility with a large majority of citizens, particularly their credibility regarding vaccines ... i’m not sure they’ll ever recover that lost credibility ...
I think trust works that way - easy to lose, difficult to get back.
the MMR vaccine should be separated into individual shots again or just go back to Measles requirement only. Current one is overkill on the system.
Measles
Mumps
Rubella
Because there are lots of idiots like you that spread viruses that are not limited by healthy eating and antibiotics.
Do the vaccines your children get contain heavy metals? I have been trying to get that info.
The vax got me questioning. My daughter is 11 and the Human papillomavirus (HPV) is recommended, but from what I’ve read it seems like BS. If I’ve raised her right and she is not sexually active I don’t see the need.
But let’s start from an objective baseline. The CDC Guidelines would have a baby get 21 vaccines by six months of age.
I hope Obama’s third term was worth it all.
not to my knowledge. We only get the ‘basics’ no seasonal flu CCP-19, RSV, etc.
4th term.
I guess I’m counting differently.
21 vaxes by 6 months age is overKILL!!! Wish this Admin would reign them in.
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