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   Sandy Lawrence (swlawrence@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 23:03:52 JST Sandy Lawrence

   Your Local Epidemiologist: "U.S. continues to move backward on routine vaccinations." Back when I was teaching, I had an hour-long lecture on vaccine-preventable disease. If I were to reboot, I would need 2 such lectures, as there are more vaccines, new categories such as RNA-based therapies, + more controversy than when I first gave the lccture over 40 yrs ago. Katelyn Jetalina is the originator of YLE, this valuable open-source posting on health issues. She currently states that there is terrible news in the public health space, namely that routine vaccination coverage among kids continues to slip. "Data from last school year shows more than 280,000 kindergartners are unvaccinated against MMR (measles/mumps/rubella; up from 250,000 the year before)." In America, 38 states are below the herd immunity threshold [95%] for measles, with Idaho at the absolute bottom at 79%. "In similar news, vaccine exemptions continue to increase, driven by non-medical exemptions (like those for philosophical reasons)." Come on folks, as providers of medical care—even retired ones—we need to communicate openly + transparently about the criticality of these wonderful immunobiologics.