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Canada is below the required immunity threshold to sustain elimination. How did we get here?

Canada is below the required immunity threshold to sustain elimination. How did we get here?

  • FriendBesto@lemmy.ml
    228·
    11 months ago

    How? There has always been X number of people who do not take vaccines, the largest group are the Amish and other smaller religious groups? The crazies you speak of are a tiny minority.

    If there is more measles but the same group of people are taking the shots then measles would not increase by much. You think that people who took shots before are not taking them anymore?

    • otp@sh.itjust.works
      39·
      11 months ago

      In the last 20 to 30ish years, there’s been a rise in anti-vax rhetoric, including massive campaigns specifically against the MMR vaccine.

    • NotJustForMe@lemmy.ml
      13·
      11 months ago

      What do you mean, the same group of people? You take the vaccine once, usually when you are a child. So if you got it for your kid, and they decided you are an archaic, brainwashed fool and didn’t get it for theirs, there you go.