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When America was about 45% one shot, Australia was 5%. Sad to say in another month or
so, if not before, Australia will have moved to a healthier vaccination rate than America.
"New study shows vaccine refusal's staggering cost in human life"
*Canada surpasses U.S. vaccination rate, after lagging for months.
July 18, 2021 Updated Aug. 8, 2021, 1:28 a.m. ET
The uptick could be good news for fully vaccinated U.S. travelers, who may be welcomed across the border by mid-August.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/18/world/covid-variant-vaccine-updates
Australia's Canberra On Track To Become Most COVID Vaccinated City In The World
Canberra, which is often dismissed as Australia’s most boring city, is on track to mark an int'l milestone - the most COVID-19 vaccinated city in the world.
Written By Bhavya Sukheja Last Updated: 13th October, 2021 18:27 IST
https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/australia/australias-canberra-on-track-to-become-most-covid-vaccinated-city-in-the-world.html
Months ago I sadly posted it would happen one day, because you have such a higher percentage of mistrust in
government. And, even more importantly in this case, a much greater mistrust in science than we do. Repost:
How Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Took Hold in the United States
"America's vaccination crisis is a symptom of our broken society"
As families face back-to-school medical requirements this month, the country feels the impact of a vaccine resistance movement decades in the making.
Anti-vaccine demonstrators outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta in June. Audra Melton for The New York Times
By Jan Hoffman Sept. 23, 2019
The question is often whispered, the questioners sheepish. But increasingly, parents at the Central Park playground where Dr. Elizabeth A. Comen .. https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/doctors/elizabeth-comen .. takes her young children have been asking her: “Do you vaccinate your kids?”
Dr. Comen, an oncologist who has treated patients for cancers related to the .. https://www.statnews.com/2019/09/11/new-evidence-shows-why-the-hpv-vaccine-is-as-important-for-boys-as-girls/ .. human papillomavirus that a vaccine can now prevent .. https://www.statnews.com/2019/09/11/new-evidence-shows-why-the-hpv-vaccine-is-as-important-for-boys-as-girls/ , replies emphatically: Absolutely.
She never imagined she would be getting such queries. Yet these playground exchanges are reflective of the national conversation at the end of the second decade of the 21st century — a time of stunning scientific and medical advances but also a time when the United States may, next month, lose its World Health Organization designation as a country that has eliminated measles, because of outbreaks this year .. https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/28/health/us-measles-elimination-status-in-jeopardy/index.html . The W.H.O. has listed vaccine hesitancy as one of the top threats to global health.
As millions of families face back-to-school medical requirements and forms this month, the contentiousness surrounding vaccines is heating up again, with possibly even more fervor.
Though the situation may seem improbable to some, anti-vaccine sentiment has been building for decades, a byproduct of an internet humming with rumor and misinformation; the backlash against Big Pharma; an infatuation with celebrities that gives special credence to the anti-immunization statements from actors like Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey and Alicia Silverstone, the rapper Kevin Gates and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And now, the Trump administration’s anti-science rhetoric.
“Science has become just another voice in the room,” said Dr. Paul A. Offit, an infectious disease expert at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia .. https://www.chop.edu/doctors/offit-paul-a . “It has lost its platform. Now, you simply declare your own truth.”
[...]
It remains true that the overwhelming majority of American parents have their children vaccinated. Parent-driven groups like Voices for Vaccines .. https://www.voicesforvaccines.org/ , formed to counter anti-vaccination sentiment, have proliferated. Five states .. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/28/nearly-all-states-allow-religious-exemptions-for-vaccinations/ .. have eliminated exemptions for religious and philosophical reasons .. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/03/nyregion/measles-vaccine-exemptions-ny.html , permitting only medical opt-outs.
But there are ominous trends .. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27854520 . For highly contagious diseases like measles, the vaccine rate to achieve herd immunity — the term that describes the optimum rate for protecting an entire population — is typically thought to be 95 percent. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the vaccination rate for the measles, mumps and rubella (M.M.R.) injection in kindergartners in the 2017-2018 .. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6740a3.htm .. school year had slipped nationally to 94.3 percent, the third year in a row it dropped.
[...]
Almost all states have at least one anti-vaccine group. At least four have registered political action committees, supporting candidates who favor less restrictive vaccine exemption policies .. https://www.texasobserver.org/anti-vaxxers-injecting-texas-republican-primaries/ .
[...]
There have been anti-vaccination movements at least since 1796, when Edward Jenner invented the smallpox vaccine. But many experts say that the current one can be traced to 1982, when NBC aired a documentary, “DPT: Vaccine Roulette,” that took up a controversy percolating in England: a purported tie between the vaccine for pertussis .. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/pert.html — a potentially fatal disease that can cause lung problems — and seizures in young children.
Doctors sharply criticized the show .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1982/04/28/tv-report-on-vaccine-stirs-bitter-controversy/80d1fc8a-1012-4732-a517-7976c86ab52d/ .. as dangerously inaccurate. But fear spread. Anti-vaccination groups formed. Many companies stopped making vaccines, which were considered loss-leaders and not worth the corporate headache.
Then, in 1998, Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist, published a Lancet study (since discredited and withdrawn .. https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccines-and-other-conditions/vaccines-autism ), associating the M.M.R. vaccine with autism.
Faced with risking autism or measles, some parents thought the answer was obvious. Most had never seen measles, mumps or rubella because vaccines had nearly eliminated them. But they believed they knew autism.
And most people are notoriously poor at assessing risk, say experts in medical decision-making.
Many stumble on omission bias: “We would rather not do something and have something bad happen, than do something and have something bad happen,” explained Alison M. Buttenheim, an associate professor of nursing and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing .. https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/live/profiles/37-alison-m-buttenheim .
People are flummoxed by numerical risk. “We pay more attention to numerators, such as ‘16 adverse events,’ than we do to denominators, such as ‘per million vaccine doses,’ ” Dr. Buttenheim said.
A concept called “ambiguity aversion” is also involved, she added. “Parents would like to be told that vaccines are 100 percent safe,” she said. “But that’s not a standard we hold any medical treatment to.”
[...]
People tend to believe an individual’s anecdotal narrative over abstract numbers. By 2007, when Ms. McCarthy, the actress, insisted that vaccines caused her son’s autism, thousands found her to be more persuasive than data showing otherwise. A nascent movement took hold.
At the same time that these powerful attacks on vaccine confidence were underway, a constellation of trends was emerging.
The definition of a good parent was becoming fraught with the responsibility for overseeing every aspect of a child’s life.
“As we adopted a culture of individualistic parenting, public health became a hard sell,” Dr. Reich said.
The primary reason for healthy people to get the flu shot is to protect those with compromised immune systems, like infants and older adults, from getting sick. But altruism isn’t a great motivator for parents, Dr. Buttenheim said. “They are much more concerned about protecting their own child at all costs,” she said.
Contrast that attitude with the collective good will of the 1950s, say medical sociologists, when American parents who had seen President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s wheelchair as a debilitating symbol of polio patriotically sought to vaccinate their children to help eradicate the disease worldwide.
By 2014, studies showed that parental confidence in authorities like the C.D.C. and in pediatricians was dropping, especially around vaccines. Mistrust of Big Pharma was even more pronounced.
By then, Donald Trump was offering support on Twitter for the discredited link between autism and vaccination. As president-elect, he met with leaders of the anti-vaccination movement .. https://www.statnews.com/2016/11/30/donald-trump-vaccines-policy/ , although as measles cases surged, he endorsed vaccination.
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so, if not before, Australia will have moved to a healthier vaccination rate than America.
"New study shows vaccine refusal's staggering cost in human life"
*Canada surpasses U.S. vaccination rate, after lagging for months.
July 18, 2021 Updated Aug. 8, 2021, 1:28 a.m. ET
The uptick could be good news for fully vaccinated U.S. travelers, who may be welcomed across the border by mid-August.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/18/world/covid-variant-vaccine-updates
Australia's Canberra On Track To Become Most COVID Vaccinated City In The World
Canberra, which is often dismissed as Australia’s most boring city, is on track to mark an int'l milestone - the most COVID-19 vaccinated city in the world.
Written By Bhavya Sukheja Last Updated: 13th October, 2021 18:27 IST
https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/australia/australias-canberra-on-track-to-become-most-covid-vaccinated-city-in-the-world.html
Months ago I sadly posted it would happen one day, because you have such a higher percentage of mistrust in
government. And, even more importantly in this case, a much greater mistrust in science than we do. Repost:
How Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Took Hold in the United States
"America's vaccination crisis is a symptom of our broken society"
As families face back-to-school medical requirements this month, the country feels the impact of a vaccine resistance movement decades in the making.
Anti-vaccine demonstrators outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta in June. Audra Melton for The New York Times
By Jan Hoffman Sept. 23, 2019
The question is often whispered, the questioners sheepish. But increasingly, parents at the Central Park playground where Dr. Elizabeth A. Comen .. https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/doctors/elizabeth-comen .. takes her young children have been asking her: “Do you vaccinate your kids?”
Dr. Comen, an oncologist who has treated patients for cancers related to the .. https://www.statnews.com/2019/09/11/new-evidence-shows-why-the-hpv-vaccine-is-as-important-for-boys-as-girls/ .. human papillomavirus that a vaccine can now prevent .. https://www.statnews.com/2019/09/11/new-evidence-shows-why-the-hpv-vaccine-is-as-important-for-boys-as-girls/ , replies emphatically: Absolutely.
She never imagined she would be getting such queries. Yet these playground exchanges are reflective of the national conversation at the end of the second decade of the 21st century — a time of stunning scientific and medical advances but also a time when the United States may, next month, lose its World Health Organization designation as a country that has eliminated measles, because of outbreaks this year .. https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/28/health/us-measles-elimination-status-in-jeopardy/index.html . The W.H.O. has listed vaccine hesitancy as one of the top threats to global health.
As millions of families face back-to-school medical requirements and forms this month, the contentiousness surrounding vaccines is heating up again, with possibly even more fervor.
Though the situation may seem improbable to some, anti-vaccine sentiment has been building for decades, a byproduct of an internet humming with rumor and misinformation; the backlash against Big Pharma; an infatuation with celebrities that gives special credence to the anti-immunization statements from actors like Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey and Alicia Silverstone, the rapper Kevin Gates and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And now, the Trump administration’s anti-science rhetoric.
“Science has become just another voice in the room,” said Dr. Paul A. Offit, an infectious disease expert at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia .. https://www.chop.edu/doctors/offit-paul-a . “It has lost its platform. Now, you simply declare your own truth.”
[...]
It remains true that the overwhelming majority of American parents have their children vaccinated. Parent-driven groups like Voices for Vaccines .. https://www.voicesforvaccines.org/ , formed to counter anti-vaccination sentiment, have proliferated. Five states .. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/28/nearly-all-states-allow-religious-exemptions-for-vaccinations/ .. have eliminated exemptions for religious and philosophical reasons .. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/03/nyregion/measles-vaccine-exemptions-ny.html , permitting only medical opt-outs.
But there are ominous trends .. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27854520 . For highly contagious diseases like measles, the vaccine rate to achieve herd immunity — the term that describes the optimum rate for protecting an entire population — is typically thought to be 95 percent. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the vaccination rate for the measles, mumps and rubella (M.M.R.) injection in kindergartners in the 2017-2018 .. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6740a3.htm .. school year had slipped nationally to 94.3 percent, the third year in a row it dropped.
[...]
Almost all states have at least one anti-vaccine group. At least four have registered political action committees, supporting candidates who favor less restrictive vaccine exemption policies .. https://www.texasobserver.org/anti-vaxxers-injecting-texas-republican-primaries/ .
[...]
There have been anti-vaccination movements at least since 1796, when Edward Jenner invented the smallpox vaccine. But many experts say that the current one can be traced to 1982, when NBC aired a documentary, “DPT: Vaccine Roulette,” that took up a controversy percolating in England: a purported tie between the vaccine for pertussis .. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/pert.html — a potentially fatal disease that can cause lung problems — and seizures in young children.
Doctors sharply criticized the show .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1982/04/28/tv-report-on-vaccine-stirs-bitter-controversy/80d1fc8a-1012-4732-a517-7976c86ab52d/ .. as dangerously inaccurate. But fear spread. Anti-vaccination groups formed. Many companies stopped making vaccines, which were considered loss-leaders and not worth the corporate headache.
Then, in 1998, Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist, published a Lancet study (since discredited and withdrawn .. https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccines-and-other-conditions/vaccines-autism ), associating the M.M.R. vaccine with autism.
Faced with risking autism or measles, some parents thought the answer was obvious. Most had never seen measles, mumps or rubella because vaccines had nearly eliminated them. But they believed they knew autism.
And most people are notoriously poor at assessing risk, say experts in medical decision-making.
Many stumble on omission bias: “We would rather not do something and have something bad happen, than do something and have something bad happen,” explained Alison M. Buttenheim, an associate professor of nursing and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing .. https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/live/profiles/37-alison-m-buttenheim .
People are flummoxed by numerical risk. “We pay more attention to numerators, such as ‘16 adverse events,’ than we do to denominators, such as ‘per million vaccine doses,’ ” Dr. Buttenheim said.
A concept called “ambiguity aversion” is also involved, she added. “Parents would like to be told that vaccines are 100 percent safe,” she said. “But that’s not a standard we hold any medical treatment to.”
[...]
People tend to believe an individual’s anecdotal narrative over abstract numbers. By 2007, when Ms. McCarthy, the actress, insisted that vaccines caused her son’s autism, thousands found her to be more persuasive than data showing otherwise. A nascent movement took hold.
At the same time that these powerful attacks on vaccine confidence were underway, a constellation of trends was emerging.
The definition of a good parent was becoming fraught with the responsibility for overseeing every aspect of a child’s life.
“As we adopted a culture of individualistic parenting, public health became a hard sell,” Dr. Reich said.
The primary reason for healthy people to get the flu shot is to protect those with compromised immune systems, like infants and older adults, from getting sick. But altruism isn’t a great motivator for parents, Dr. Buttenheim said. “They are much more concerned about protecting their own child at all costs,” she said.
Contrast that attitude with the collective good will of the 1950s, say medical sociologists, when American parents who had seen President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s wheelchair as a debilitating symbol of polio patriotically sought to vaccinate their children to help eradicate the disease worldwide.
By 2014, studies showed that parental confidence in authorities like the C.D.C. and in pediatricians was dropping, especially around vaccines. Mistrust of Big Pharma was even more pronounced.
By then, Donald Trump was offering support on Twitter for the discredited link between autism and vaccination. As president-elect, he met with leaders of the anti-vaccination movement .. https://www.statnews.com/2016/11/30/donald-trump-vaccines-policy/ , although as measles cases surged, he endorsed vaccination.
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