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WHat do you think of parents who don't immunize their kids?
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<blockquote data-quote="seriously" data-source="post: 465984" data-attributes="member: 11920"><p>If you are correct and it was largely immigrants who died from chicken pox (I have not read this anywhere but have not looked for the info either) in the past the situation is rapidly changing. We are now facing a lot more kids/youth/young adults who have not been vaccinated. And a growing elderly population. And the population of people who are on immune-suppressant drugs for auto-immune disorders has grown by leaps and bounds in the past 15 years with the introduction of biologics.</p><p> </p><p>So. It seems unlikely that even if it the numbers were skewed toward immigrants in the past, it is going to stay that way if the current vaccination trends continue. In California there has been a steady decline, statewide, since 2004.</p><p></p><p>And some communities are much more vulnerable than others. In California, there are now growing disparities between different parts of the state in the rate of vaccination in kinders. Rates of up to 30% unvaccinated kinders have been reported and I don't see how, in those schools, the herd immunity can be maintained. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.dailydemocrat.com/news/ci_18985311" target="_blank">http://www.dailydemocrat.com/news/ci_18985311</a></p><p></p><p>When they were younger my children attended a Waldorf based public school and one of the things I was happy to leave behind when we left that school was the extremely high numbers of kids who were not vaccinated because it was even higher than that.</p><p><a href="http://www.dailydemocrat.com/news/ci_18985311" target="_blank"></a></p><p><a href="http://www.dailydemocrat.com/news/ci_18985311" target="_blank">S</a>peaking from personal experience, both my kids were vax'd against chicken pox once when they were 4 yo. Both developed strong titers when tested 10 years later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seriously, post: 465984, member: 11920"] If you are correct and it was largely immigrants who died from chicken pox (I have not read this anywhere but have not looked for the info either) in the past the situation is rapidly changing. We are now facing a lot more kids/youth/young adults who have not been vaccinated. And a growing elderly population. And the population of people who are on immune-suppressant drugs for auto-immune disorders has grown by leaps and bounds in the past 15 years with the introduction of biologics. So. It seems unlikely that even if it the numbers were skewed toward immigrants in the past, it is going to stay that way if the current vaccination trends continue. In California there has been a steady decline, statewide, since 2004. And some communities are much more vulnerable than others. In California, there are now growing disparities between different parts of the state in the rate of vaccination in kinders. Rates of up to 30% unvaccinated kinders have been reported and I don't see how, in those schools, the herd immunity can be maintained. [URL]http://www.dailydemocrat.com/news/ci_18985311[/URL] When they were younger my children attended a Waldorf based public school and one of the things I was happy to leave behind when we left that school was the extremely high numbers of kids who were not vaccinated because it was even higher than that. [URL="http://www.dailydemocrat.com/news/ci_18985311"] S[/URL]peaking from personal experience, both my kids were vax'd against chicken pox once when they were 4 yo. Both developed strong titers when tested 10 years later. [/QUOTE]
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