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LOL.
The perfect storm: when antivaxxers led by RFK, Jr., meet Biden's three million uninvited guests. What could possibly go wrong? Wow, LOL. The perfect storm.
Of course, Trump will be blamed since he was responsible for the US leaving the World Health Organization.
Link here. This will sell a lot of newspapers. Clipboard nurses and the CDC graphics department will have a field day. They won't have any effect on the outbreak but they will certainly feel busy.
Here's the first graphic.
CDC = Centers For Disease Control and Protection --- wow, talk about an oxymoron. Interestingly, we haven't heard a thing about this from RFK, Jr.
By the way, what's the current US recommendation on measles vaccine? The good news: measles is still "on the list" of pediatric vaccines, but, now the bad news, the emphasis is now on "personal choice."
That was the compromise made with RFK, Jr., to keep the vaccine on list of pediatric vaccines available in the. US.
And if you ask a two-year-old if she wants a "shot," she will say "no." And, of course, she's on solid ground. Her parents know that if all the kids at daycare have their vaccines, she will be protected by "herd immunity."
The history of the vaccine:
- 1963, the first iteration: I was 12
- 1968, the second and better iteration: I was 17, getting ready to graduate from high school
- 1971: the MMR vaccine was introduction -- in my second year of college.
It will be interesting to see if the measles vaccine (a series of two vaccinations before the age of six years of age) provides a lifetime of immunity. If so, it will be quite amazing.
This is the CDC site for tracking measles -- a disease that was "eliminated" in the US in the year 2000.
