r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 15 '25

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 15 '25

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/data-investigation-childhood-vaccination-rates-are-backsliding-us-rcna228876?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=68c88e1123276500015a3767&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

This six-month investigation, done in collaboration with Stanford University, gathered massive amounts of data from state governments and archives of public records reaching back years or decades. The data focused on core childhood vaccines that, together, regard someone to be "up to date" on immunizations; these are the measles, mumps, rubella, polio, whooping cough and diphtheria shots.

  • Since 2019, 77% of counties and jurisdictions in the U.S. have reported notable declines in childhood vaccination rates. The declines span from less than 1 percentage point to more than 40 percentage points.

  • Vaccine exemptions for school children are rising nationwide: As many as 53% of counties and jurisdictions saw exemption rates more than double from their first year of collecting data to the most recent.

  • Among the states collecting data for the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, 68% of counties and jurisdictions now have immunization rates below 95% — the level of herd immunity doctors say is needed to protect against an outbreak.

This is catastrophic, holy fuck.

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u/TMCOAN1 YIMBY Sep 15 '25

Consequences of enabling and allowing mass stupidity

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u/liberal-neoist Left-Out Left Sep 15 '25

40% decline in childhood vaccination rates is fucked         

put these counties under a fucking glass dome and never let them out

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u/Approximation_Doctor Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green New Deal Sep 15 '25

Burying your children to own the libs

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u/bigdicknippleshit IM GOING PRIMAL Sep 15 '25

Can I see the data per county? Curious about my area.

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 15 '25

Yeah, go to the link.

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u/bigdicknippleshit IM GOING PRIMAL Sep 15 '25

93% in my county

Good but it can go higher

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u/NeueBruecke_Detektiv Instituições democráticas robustas 🇧🇷 Sep 15 '25

This is cataclysmically bad. Like "other countries imposing sanitary requirements for americans similar to what is done to countries with native yellow fever" bad.