That means there is a 1:604,822 chance of any random baby dying with pertussis.
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Yes, because almost everybody is vaccinated.
series of five doses is recommended, starting at 6 weeks of age, with the final dose given between 4 and 6 years of age.
So the children are mostly vaccinated and everybody around them is also vaccinated.
Before the pertussis vaccine was widely available in the 1940s, an estimated 9,000 children died annually in the U.S. and worldwide, there were about 160,700 deaths annually in children under 5. Pertussis was a major cause of childhood mortality in the pre-vaccine era.
In 1925 there were less then 3 million children born. So about 0.3% children died from pertussis. That’s significant, especially that there were all the other contagious diseases around.
My mother remembered school friends who died of diphtheria and others from tetanus. I remember bunch of Polio survivors, in wheelchairs or crutches.
I'm not convinced you are correct.
Florida "Vaccine Hesitancy" REDUCED Infant Mortality in 2021https://www.igor-chudov.com/p/florida-vaccine-hesitancy-reducedWhat I found is that in 2021, parents of newborns in Florida were much more “vaccine hesitant”, for reasons obvious to my readers, and therefore childhood vaccinations decreased from 93.4% previously to only 79.3% in 2021. During the same time, all cause infant mortality under 1 year of age in Florida also DECREASED by 8.93%.
For context, please understand my vaccination position is that the purpose of "herd immunity" is to provide benefit for infants having immature immune systems. I'm not opposed to adults getting vaccines of their own free will to provide benefit for themselves and for others through herd immunity. I do not believe there is a substantial benefit to immunizing infants before they have a mature immune system of their own. I believe herd immunity and modern therapeutics largely fill that gap to the point where the disease/harm and vaccine/harm ratios in infants suggest the risk to vaccinating often outweighs the gain in vaccinating. I believe often times the sheer volume of vaccine materials, including metal adjuvants and contaminants, does more harm by volume than good in infants. I furthermore believe it is unconscionable to force this upon infants when they cannot communicate verbally the results, and when Big Pharma cannot be held accountable for the results.
I don't want the USA to give up its vaccination programs. I want the USA to make its vaccination program sane again, and to hold authorities accountable for the errors they have made and continue to make (for the love of money) that harm our citizens.
Simply repeal the "National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986" and most of the sanity in the vaccination schedule will return overnight.