Uh. Yeah.
Me.
I lost my shot records. When I got married to my soldier we were to be stationed in Germany. As my shot records were in the wind, I had no records of vaccinations. Rather than go through the entire series again, all I had to do was get the titers, then I would be good.
All my titers were negative. This is after my college went through a measles outbreak and I had to get a booster to move into the dorms.
So fully vaccinated. Booster at 18. Still negative titer.
I had to go through the entire series again, as if I’d never had vaccinations. It took a full year. (I eventually found my records - tucked in a box with baby photos - and they let me go to Germany, on the condition that I completed the vaccinations.)
Now how rare is that? How many people lose their records and need to even get the titer done to move to a foreign country? What are the odds that I’d even be tested?
Yeah. It can happen. I’ll do the homework to see if *anyone* has even looked into the broader implications when I get the chance.
I would expect many people born and vaccinated in the 60’s have lost their vaccination records. The schools then, weren’t so rigid about the record keeping. My mother who has operated a private Montessori preschool since I was a child didn’t have to start proving compliance until the 80’s. Of course, the schedule back then was far more simple than it is now.
I’m pro-vax but I think the public health experts have gotten out of control and that required vaccinations should be limited to the serious diseases whose communicability makes them prone to epidemics and that the ones that require body fluid transmission should be optional rather than required.
It’s ridiculous to be jabbing newborns with HPV and HepB unless they have an identified risk like a wart covered drug using mother that works in the porn industry.