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I’m on the waitlist. I’ve heard that it is but haven’t been called yet.
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Got both the flu and Covid vaccine today
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Conspiracy theories about the vaccines followed by conspiracy theories about the outbreaks of the diseases the vaccines are for
Amongst the tin foil hat crowd that's known as a win-win
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Fewer American parents vaccinated their kindergartners as more sought exemptions from routine shots during the last school year, new data shows.
The figures – released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – follow trends since the COVID-19 pandemic with more parents foregoing children’s vaccines that have been instrumental in saving early lives. In turn, preventable diseases have resurfaced across the U.S.
The risks can be serious and even fatal for children, family members and others around them, said Dr. Georgina Peacock, director of CDC’s Immunization Services Division.
“As we are noting these declines in childhood vaccination, we are also seeing more communities experience outbreaks of measles and whooping cough across the U.S.,” she said in a statement. “Vaccination is the best way to prevent these outbreaks and their devastating impact on children.”
Routine vaccines are typically required to attend public schools unless you have an exemption. In the 2023-24 school year, the CDC reported the percentage of kindergartners who'd been vaccinated decreased for all reported vaccines. The two-dose measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is now at 92.7%, down from 95.2% during the 2019-20 school year.
At the same time, the percentage of kindergarteners with exemptions to at least one vaccine jumped to 3.3%, up from 3% in the 2022-23 year. Exemptions increased in 40 states and Washington, D.C. The percentage of children with exemptions in 14 states exceeded 5%.
Reaching at least 95% vaccination coverage in a community for diseases such as measles can prevent outbreaks, according to the CDC.
Health officials in North Carolina announced in September the state’s first measles case since 2018, of a child in Mecklenburg County who was likely exposed while outside the U.S. Rates for kindergartners in the state receiving the MMR vaccine have dipped to 93.8%. That trend is reflected in Mecklenburg, which includes Charlotte, where gradual declines in vaccination have been met with increases in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases.
Even a few unvaccinated people can have lasting effects in neighborhoods and schools...........
Amongst the tin foil hat crowd that's known as a win-win
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Fewer American parents vaccinated their kindergartners as more sought exemptions from routine shots during the last school year, new data shows.
The figures – released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – follow trends since the COVID-19 pandemic with more parents foregoing children’s vaccines that have been instrumental in saving early lives. In turn, preventable diseases have resurfaced across the U.S.
The risks can be serious and even fatal for children, family members and others around them, said Dr. Georgina Peacock, director of CDC’s Immunization Services Division.
“As we are noting these declines in childhood vaccination, we are also seeing more communities experience outbreaks of measles and whooping cough across the U.S.,” she said in a statement. “Vaccination is the best way to prevent these outbreaks and their devastating impact on children.”
Routine vaccines are typically required to attend public schools unless you have an exemption. In the 2023-24 school year, the CDC reported the percentage of kindergartners who'd been vaccinated decreased for all reported vaccines. The two-dose measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is now at 92.7%, down from 95.2% during the 2019-20 school year.
At the same time, the percentage of kindergarteners with exemptions to at least one vaccine jumped to 3.3%, up from 3% in the 2022-23 year. Exemptions increased in 40 states and Washington, D.C. The percentage of children with exemptions in 14 states exceeded 5%.
Reaching at least 95% vaccination coverage in a community for diseases such as measles can prevent outbreaks, according to the CDC.
Health officials in North Carolina announced in September the state’s first measles case since 2018, of a child in Mecklenburg County who was likely exposed while outside the U.S. Rates for kindergartners in the state receiving the MMR vaccine have dipped to 93.8%. That trend is reflected in Mecklenburg, which includes Charlotte, where gradual declines in vaccination have been met with increases in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases.
Even a few unvaccinated people can have lasting effects in neighborhoods and schools...........
Last school year, fewer kindergartners were vaccinated, CDC says
In the 2023-24 school year, the CDC reported vaccine coverage among kindergartners decreased across all reported vaccines.
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It was here. I got both. As others told me, the covid vaccine killed me. (Un)fortunately, the flu vaccine brought me back.
No side effects other sudden death.
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and when their child dies or has long term effects from something they could have gotten protection for, they'll then blame it on some other conspiracy..Conspiracy theories about the vaccines followed by conspiracy theories about the outbreaks of the diseases the vaccines are for
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Fewer American parents vaccinated their kindergartners as more sought exemptions from routine shots during the last school year, new data shows.
The figures – released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – follow trends since the COVID-19 pandemic with more parents foregoing children’s vaccines that have been instrumental in saving early lives. In turn, preventable diseases have resurfaced across the U.S.
The risks can be serious and even fatal for children, family members and others around them, said Dr. Georgina Peacock, director of CDC’s Immunization Services Division.
“As we are noting these declines in childhood vaccination, we are also seeing more communities experience outbreaks of measles and whooping cough across the U.S.,” she said in a statement. “Vaccination is the best way to prevent these outbreaks and their devastating impact on children.”
Routine vaccines are typically required to attend public schools unless you have an exemption. In the 2023-24 school year, the CDC reported the percentage of kindergartners who'd been vaccinated decreased for all reported vaccines. The two-dose measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is now at 92.7%, down from 95.2% during the 2019-20 school year.
At the same time, the percentage of kindergarteners with exemptions to at least one vaccine jumped to 3.3%, up from 3% in the 2022-23 year. Exemptions increased in 40 states and Washington, D.C. The percentage of children with exemptions in 14 states exceeded 5%.
Reaching at least 95% vaccination coverage in a community for diseases such as measles can prevent outbreaks, according to the CDC.
Health officials in North Carolina announced in September the state’s first measles case since 2018, of a child in Mecklenburg County who was likely exposed while outside the U.S. Rates for kindergartners in the state receiving the MMR vaccine have dipped to 93.8%. That trend is reflected in Mecklenburg, which includes Charlotte, where gradual declines in vaccination have been met with increases in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases.
Even a few unvaccinated people can have lasting effects in neighborhoods and schools...........
Last school year, fewer kindergartners were vaccinated, CDC says
In the 2023-24 school year, the CDC reported vaccine coverage among kindergartners decreased across all reported vaccines.www.usatoday.com
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Covid is once again surging across the US after an unusual relative lull over the fall, as rates of booster vaccinations remain stubbornly low.
Continuing infections and the evolution of variants underscore the importance of vaccinating, tracking the ebbs and flows of Covid, and employing preventive measures like face masks and clean air – important tools that could undergo greater politicization in coming months and years.
“The Covid pandemic is still ongoing. It’s still dangerous,” said Jeffrey Townsend, Elihu Professor of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health.
“As this new administration comes about, everyone in public health and in public health communication has to be just exceedingly clear” about the state of Covid and measures to combat it in order to minimize misinformation and the potential lack of information, he said.
Test positivity, emergency room visits, hospitalizations and deaths from Covid are all increasing, and wastewater monitoring indicates the rates first started ticking up a month ago.
Only one in five (21.4%) of adults and one in 10 (10.3%) of children have gotten the newest Covid booster, which became available in late August.
One in three (37%) of nursing home residents are up-to-date on Covid shots, which is higher than 23% at the same time last year but still lower than needed to protect the population most vulnerable to severe illness and death.
“The real worry is that elderly folks will suffer greatly from this disease, if not sometimes die from it,” Townsend said.
But others are also vulnerable to Covid, he said. Beyond illness and death, that can include the economic effects of missing work and school as well as the risk of developing long Covid.………
www.theguardian.com
Continuing infections and the evolution of variants underscore the importance of vaccinating, tracking the ebbs and flows of Covid, and employing preventive measures like face masks and clean air – important tools that could undergo greater politicization in coming months and years.
“The Covid pandemic is still ongoing. It’s still dangerous,” said Jeffrey Townsend, Elihu Professor of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health.
“As this new administration comes about, everyone in public health and in public health communication has to be just exceedingly clear” about the state of Covid and measures to combat it in order to minimize misinformation and the potential lack of information, he said.
Test positivity, emergency room visits, hospitalizations and deaths from Covid are all increasing, and wastewater monitoring indicates the rates first started ticking up a month ago.
Only one in five (21.4%) of adults and one in 10 (10.3%) of children have gotten the newest Covid booster, which became available in late August.
One in three (37%) of nursing home residents are up-to-date on Covid shots, which is higher than 23% at the same time last year but still lower than needed to protect the population most vulnerable to severe illness and death.
“The real worry is that elderly folks will suffer greatly from this disease, if not sometimes die from it,” Townsend said.
But others are also vulnerable to Covid, he said. Beyond illness and death, that can include the economic effects of missing work and school as well as the risk of developing long Covid.………
Covid surges across US after holidays amid low booster uptake
Test positivity, emergency room visits, hospitalizations and deaths are increasing as expert warns: ‘It’s still dangerous’
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I've come to the conclusion that we as a society are, in general, too dumb and too enchanted by the latest bs conspiracy theories to come in out of the rain.
So, in the immortal words of Fear's "Let's have a War"
There's too many of us!
So, in the immortal words of Fear's "Let's have a War"
There's too many of us!
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Tonight's Saturday Night Movie is Tarus Bulba.
The spectacular hordes of Cossack horsemen flying across the steppes to do battle with first one enemy and then another are the highlights of this otherwise thinly scripted costume drama set in the 16th century in the Ukraine. After the Cossack leader Taras Bulba (Yul Brynner) makes a pact with the Poles to join forces against the Turks and drive them from the European steppes, victory brings betrayal as the Poles then turn on their ally and force the Cossacks into the hills. From there, Taras Bulba decides that one of his sons, Andrei (Tony Curtis), will be sent to Polish schools to better learn the nature of their enemy. While away from home and hearth, the adult Andrei falls in love with a Polish noblewoman, Natalia (Christine Kaufmann, who would become the second Mrs. Curtis). As time progresses, the tensions between father and son, loyalty and love, ethnic identity and assimilation steadily increase until they end in tragedy. Taras Bulba was nominated for a 1963 Academy Award for "Best Music", scored by Franz Waxman.
The spectacular hordes of Cossack horsemen flying across the steppes to do battle with first one enemy and then another are the highlights of this otherwise thinly scripted costume drama set in the 16th century in the Ukraine. After the Cossack leader Taras Bulba (Yul Brynner) makes a pact with the Poles to join forces against the Turks and drive them from the European steppes, victory brings betrayal as the Poles then turn on their ally and force the Cossacks into the hills. From there, Taras Bulba decides that one of his sons, Andrei (Tony Curtis), will be sent to Polish schools to better learn the nature of their enemy. While away from home and hearth, the adult Andrei falls in love with a Polish noblewoman, Natalia (Christine Kaufmann, who would become the second Mrs. Curtis). As time progresses, the tensions between father and son, loyalty and love, ethnic identity and assimilation steadily increase until they end in tragedy. Taras Bulba was nominated for a 1963 Academy Award for "Best Music", scored by Franz Waxman.
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I've been posting in the wrong thread.
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I've received the latest COVID vaccine, this year's influenza vaccine, and the PPV23 (pneumococcal) vaccine — all free of charge where I live. Each year, I receive an email informing me when vaccines are available and which ones are recommended based on my age and health situation. I simply show up at the local hospital at the assigned time, get the shots, enjoy a cup of coffee or tea, and wait for 20 minutes before leaving.
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Throw lazy into the mix.
I’ve been meaning to get vaccinated for a while now, but something always comes up. So I put it off. Too late now because I have Covid. My wife works with several people that don’t “believe “ in Covid. This sucks.
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Most of my coworkers don't believe in it. My employer offered a bonus (I think that it was $1,000) to get the vaccine when it first came out. If 85% of us got vaccinated we got the money and if 84.999% of us, or fewer, got vaccinated, we got nothing.
We got nothing.
HR told me that 45% showed proof of vaccination.
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