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Vaccine opt-out rate for Louisiana children skyrockets. Herd immunity at risk, experts say.
NOLA ^ | Apr 1, 2024 | EMILY WOODRUFF

Posted on 04/15/2024 5:09:42 PM PDT by DoodleBob

Parents opted out of vaccines for Louisiana’s kindergartners at the highest rate in at least a decade as several new bills to weaken vaccine requirements continue to advance in the Louisiana Legislature.

During the 2022-23 school year, about 2.3% of children entering school requested exemptions, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 0.1% of those were due to medical reasons.

That’s around double the year before, when 1.1% of kindergarten students requested nonmedical exemptions. From 2011 to 2017, the average exemption rate was around 0.75%.

“It’s a slippery slope,” said Dr. Mark Kline, physician in chief at Children’s Hospital New Orleans and an infectious disease specialist. “The higher the percentage of school-age children who are unvaccinated or under-vaccinated, the less herd immunity we have.”

Louisiana is already one of 15 states that allows for “philosophical” exemptions for any reason. Health experts worry that making it easier to opt out may push the state into outbreak territory. For some diseases, a slim margin determines whether viruses can easily spread. ..Several states are experiencing (measles) outbreaks…

…Because vaccination has been baked into schooling for so long, the benefits of vaccination are not as apparent as they once were, when children were paralyzed by polio or killed by measles at higher rates. Childhood vaccinations prevent an estimated 4 million deaths yearly, according to the CDC.

Those who are most at risk when vaccination rates drop are infants too young to be vaccinated and people with weakened immune systems, for whom vaccination doesn’t work as well.

“If the vaccine drops continue, we’re going to get outbreaks,” said Tulane's Stoecker. “And kids are going to die. And maybe at that point, we’ll reconsider what our policy options are.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: schools; vaccines
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This is not about vaccinations.

This is about parents’ rights. To wit: if your kid is vaccinated against measles, why are you worried?

As for Stoecker from Tulane, we got his number:

“It’s great news that the vaccines are so effective. We don't have to vaccinate that many more people than 70% to get 70% of the population immune,” Stoecker said. “How do we get there?”

He thinks that the public will become more confident as more people get the vaccine. Also, as COVID cases surge this winter, more people will be personally affected by the virus and its potentially deadly consequences.

“As coronavirus deaths mount, and as we don’t see serious long-term consequences of vaccine, people’s calculations are going to change,” Stoecker said in the podcast. “Currently, people are dying from coronavirus at about one per minute in the United States. In the time that I’ve taken to answer your question right now, there will have been a couple of additional deaths. More and more people are going to know someone close to them who’s died due to coronavirus. Their calculation will change. It’s possible that there may be some risks of taking the vaccine. It’s likely that that there are some short-term adverse events. You’re going to have to balance that with the risk of the disease itself.”

1 posted on 04/15/2024 5:09:42 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

Not to worry. Bill Gates will put all the vaccines he desires in their Lunchables.


2 posted on 04/15/2024 5:12:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: DoodleBob

The is no such thing as herd immunity. There is no immunity provided. “herd immunity” is a thought exercise with the intent of shaming people into getting a vaccine. The thought exercise requires a controlled population, meaning that there is no additional people added to the community.


3 posted on 04/15/2024 5:14:11 PM PDT by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: DoodleBob

What ‘vaccine’ are we talking about here in particular.

Take ONE guess.


4 posted on 04/15/2024 5:18:46 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ruined it with “...experts say.” Same experts that sponsored COVID development, lied about who released it, lied about potency and treatments, lied about isolation?

In my world of actual repeatable science that actually works, we call these folks ...well, best not unleash my patented list of four-letter words.


5 posted on 04/15/2024 5:19:13 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: DoodleBob

BS.

We have immune systems that work far better than that so-called *vaccine* which does NOT provide *herd immunity*.

They are playing a constant game of catch up as the virus mutates unpredictably and therefor they can only create the vax after the variant is out.

Not to mention that children are not all that affected by Covid.


6 posted on 04/15/2024 5:21:10 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: DoodleBob

What about all the illegals flooding the country who are not only not vaxxed for anything, but bring with them the very diseases our medical community wants to vax us against?


7 posted on 04/15/2024 5:22:21 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: DoodleBob

Herd Immunity = Natural Immunity != Vaccines


8 posted on 04/15/2024 5:22:23 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: taxcontrol

Good point.


9 posted on 04/15/2024 5:23:10 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: DoodleBob

The CDC is a political organization that implements rules, recommendations and guidelines that suit the benefit of leftist government only.

They lie. Often. They change definitions, rewrite guidelines and write fake and unsupported ‘studies’ all to suit the whims of leftist government. They are useless.


10 posted on 04/15/2024 5:23:57 PM PDT by Gaffer
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KarenVax Holocaust.....


11 posted on 04/15/2024 5:24:05 PM PDT by ganeemead (everything )
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To: DoodleBob

Heavens to Murgatroyd! Who knew after government officials continually lied about covid testing, covid itself and covid genetic shocks, people would lose faith in government recommended health care.


12 posted on 04/15/2024 5:24:14 PM PDT by week 71
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To: taxcontrol

No one trust the c d c anymore

They are corrupt

The medical profession doesn’t fare much better.They two are corrupt

Getting paid some thirteen thousand dollars to declare someone has covid Or thirty nine thousand dollars to put them on a ventilator and blow out their lungs

Moreover doctors were paid three hundred dollars for each patient that got two jabs

You have destroyed our trust and i’m not getting the flu shot ever


13 posted on 04/15/2024 5:24:44 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Pikachu_Dad
Required vaccinations to attend LA schools:


14 posted on 04/15/2024 5:29:57 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: metmom

I have been in favor since forever of parents having plenary rights and say on what gets injected into their children.

I’ve seen a few outbreaks like in Spring Valley NY a few years ago:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3738513/posts

At the time, this exposed antisemitism. I don’t know how Jewish folks suddenly developed measles…was it brought by little green aliens?

But the correlation with outbreaks of measles and other nasty things with masses of people from abroad, here illegally, and the redirection/ sliming of the
‘Antivaxxers’ is too coincidental.


15 posted on 04/15/2024 5:39:02 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: All

Smart parents


16 posted on 04/15/2024 5:39:54 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: DoodleBob
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17 posted on 04/15/2024 5:41:34 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: DoodleBob

Perhaps if their “SPECIALISTS, EXPERTS, SCIENTISTS, DOCTORS” hadn’t BLATENTLY LIED about the origin of COVID, the SAFETY, EFFECTIVENESS, and EFFICIENCY of their SO CALLED VACCINES people wouldn’t be so hesitant to get vaccinated.

To the CDC and ALL DOCTORS; YOU THREW AWAY OUR TRUST in you for POLITICS, you threw away that trust for all time, you IGNORED YOUR HIPPOCRATIC OATH!

———————————DO NO HARM-——————————————!


18 posted on 04/15/2024 5:45:39 PM PDT by 5th MEB (1)
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To: DoodleBob

Political hacks are continuing to push stuff that they have no clue or research to justify. Politics is destroying our common sense.


19 posted on 04/15/2024 5:47:57 PM PDT by apoliticalone (We need real justice not fictitious SOCIAL JUSTICE & DEI that is politics & propaganda, not justice.)
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The “experts” said it would never rain because it had never rained before. The Climate Change happened with Noahs Flood and all of the experts drowned.


20 posted on 04/15/2024 6:00:38 PM PDT by BipolarBob (The phone, the TV and the news of the world got in the house like a pigeon from hell)
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