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Why We Vaccinate (thetyee.ca)
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Amidst shifting political winds, we consider seven once common, now preventable diseases.

There’s a concerning trend emerging in Canada and the United States when it comes to vaccine hesitancy.

In the United States, a key legal adviser to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the man tapped to be the next U.S. health secretary, is working to get rid of polio and hepatitis B vaccines in America, according to the New York Times. Kennedy himself has vocally opposed vaccines for years.

On Canada’s East Coast, where vaccinations are readily available, three out of every 10 kids are not vaccinated against measles.

It’s not too different on the West Coast. Wong said that last year only around 69 per cent of two-year-olds in B.C. were up to date on all recommended vaccines, down from 74 per cent in 2017. By seven years old, that percentage falls to 66 per cent, which is down from 73 per cent in 2021, Wong added.

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[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

yeah we are basically the food source and if one in a hunred people can't get vaccinated and being vaccinated means that 99% of the time you won't get infected or not enough to become infectious anyway. Then its very hard for it to survive and it goes extinct same way we do if we don't have the food to keep us alive. But if 10% are unvaccinated. ugh.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

That's a really good way to put it, yeah. Basically vaccination doesn't make you immune to a disease, but it makes your body a much, much harsher environment for it to try to live in.