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Measles Is Coming Back. We’re Not Prepared (thetyee.ca)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Great points.

Didn't Jenny McCarthy leverage Andrew Wakefield's research for her position, though? Because I feel like that's when it started becoming "mainstream".

I'd say it was during the pandemic that it went crazy though. Actually mainstream, where parents stopped asking each other "Where do you take your baby for their boosters?", and started asking "So are you choosing to vaccine your baby?"...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

She absolutely did, but she isn't even a footnote. People having kids today might not even know who she is.

If you look at data, vaccination support was lower in 2008 than it got in 2014 when it dipped again due to Wakefield. He is blamed for specific incidences, like measles outbreaks at the time. But a bigger dip happened in 2019 with the bullshit nationalism messaging (don't let the government tell you what to do)

https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-health/immunization/