There's a correlation between those for whom vaccines do not work well, and those who are particularly likely to die of disease. Before deciding those odds apply to every child, it would be nice to know whether they were perfectly healthy children, or whether they already had a serious illness, known or unknown. The annual rate of death …
There's a correlation between those for whom vaccines do not work well, and those who are particularly likely to die of disease. Before deciding those odds apply to every child, it would be nice to know whether they were perfectly healthy children, or whether they already had a serious illness, known or unknown. The annual rate of death from measles when practically every child was getting it was in the 400-500 range. That's considerably less than half a percent.
As far as getting sick goes, yeah, it's unpleasant. That doesn't mean the preventative is always worth it. After all, we can draw a direct line of comparison between your week itching over chicken pox, and the longer-term eczema the child in the original article was itching over. There are also people who die from vaccinations. Live virus vaccines have been known to get people sick (most modern cases of polio come from vaccinations). Risk analysis actually requires looking at both sides, and it's generally good to incorporate the particular facts for the particular person.
Now there is an easy way to remove the religious objections of a lot of people very quickly. The MMR vaccine in the US was developed with the use of aborted fetal cells. There is another measles vaccine developed and used in Japan for several decades, to present day, that did not use them. It is not approved in the US, due to economic protectionism. The moral objection could be easily removed by certain people being less greedy.
There's a correlation between those for whom vaccines do not work well, and those who are particularly likely to die of disease. Before deciding those odds apply to every child, it would be nice to know whether they were perfectly healthy children, or whether they already had a serious illness, known or unknown. The annual rate of death from measles when practically every child was getting it was in the 400-500 range. That's considerably less than half a percent.
As far as getting sick goes, yeah, it's unpleasant. That doesn't mean the preventative is always worth it. After all, we can draw a direct line of comparison between your week itching over chicken pox, and the longer-term eczema the child in the original article was itching over. There are also people who die from vaccinations. Live virus vaccines have been known to get people sick (most modern cases of polio come from vaccinations). Risk analysis actually requires looking at both sides, and it's generally good to incorporate the particular facts for the particular person.
Now there is an easy way to remove the religious objections of a lot of people very quickly. The MMR vaccine in the US was developed with the use of aborted fetal cells. There is another measles vaccine developed and used in Japan for several decades, to present day, that did not use them. It is not approved in the US, due to economic protectionism. The moral objection could be easily removed by certain people being less greedy.