CDC reports highest childhood vaccine exemption rate ever in the U.S.
www.nbcnews.com
Forty states saw rises in parents citing religious or other personal concerns for not vaccinating their young children.

This is for mmr, dtap, polio and var vaccines. Vaccination rates for children are below 95% for the first time in a decade also.

Ten states have exemption rates of over 5%. Idaho has like 12% exemption rates. Very cool.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    8 months ago

    when I was younger, I used to get in these circular discussion/arguments about what be the cause of some assumed near future population crash. I e. nuclear exchange/nuclear winter, rapid climatic shift, etc.

    I always was confidently in the “Virus X” as a stand in for some lethal pathogen, because I assumed the evolutionary key was going to outpatce our regularly updated locks.

    never thought this whole anti-vax shit would be so popular and that so many race to the red light. with their own kids, no less.

    • TupamarosShakur [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      20·
      8 months ago

      With this it’s not even virus x though, it’s viruses we’ve previously had under control, but our entire population has decided that nah, we’d rather resurrect Victorian-era diseases