#Vaccines and immunisation

[meandmybigmouth]

IT’S THAT NEW, WHACKY  RIGHT WING “FAD” SWEEPING AMERICA! “SUICIDE BY COVID” 

[oww666]

a case was won in Canada also in BC 

[emmarachelharding]

Tuesday 8th November

It's getting colder here now. I usually feel the cold easily but even my husband is going to bed with jogging bottoms and jumpers too! We also just had a very heavy downpour. It's rained once or twice since I've been in mid August but this was the most significant rainfall. I didn't think to shut the windows as was busy chasing around my baby and then later discovered the rain had soaked through the furnishings close to the windows...oops! I've learned for next time anyhow. It was incredible to see the water pouring down the steps outside, it came down so fast and heavy but now it's bright and sunny again.

My baby has been a little congested recently so we had to miss swim class on Monday. I'm hoping that he will feel better soon but also that he doesn't get so afraid when we take him to the pool like he did last week. It's a shame that he had to miss the class this week as it would have been good to gradually build up his contact with the water again.

We will also be taking him to the other baby group on Thursday this week due to my husband's work schedule. He seemed to really enjoy this last week and had fun meeting other babies. I have tried to find an English-speaking group but I don't think we will be able to take him to the only one that seems available as it's not possible to get there by public transport and it's on a day that my husband is working. So very hard to find decent baby classes here but I'm keeping a lookout.

We also took baby to have a doctor checkup and all seems well. We will have to take him back in a month to have more vaccines including the oral polio syrup which they prescribed due to the outbreak in Israel. It's strange that they don't give meningitis c here and meningitis b can only be prescribed by your doctor rather than getting it from Tipat Halav (baby clinic) where all the other vaccines are given. I have no idea why.

Met up again with my expat friend here who has also recently had a baby and she was telling me how she is putting off giving her baby vaccines until he is older. I respect her decision absolutely. I suppose I've never really questioned or given the immunisation program for babies a second thought. I just accepted that it was what you do but it's interesting to consider that maybe I should be thinking more carefully about the decisions I make for my baby. I'm going to have a lot more big choices to make for him and it's important that I get it right and do what's in his best interest.

[exploring-sars-cov-2]

This fascinating animation of vaccine case rates versus state vaccination rates shows two interesting patterns:

First pattern, the Aug/Sept 2021 pattern supports the "pandemic of the unvaccinated” narrative. 

Second, the April/May 2022 pattern supports the "pandemic of the vaccinated” narrative.

This leads me to two interpretations:

1) The vaccine was effective against the delta variant, but counterproductive for omicron.

2) The vaccine was never effective, and the pattern for Aug/Sept can be attributed to data manipulation. Furthermore, the pattern for April/May was so bad that even the data manipulation failed to hide the problem.

Any thoughts?

[sophiamcdougall]

At the lesbian meetup, met a kind of transphobic woman. Started gearing up to get fighty and then realised... she wasn't an actual terf. She was just older, genuinely didn't know stuff, had heard some terf talking points in passing and had been made kind of anxious by them, but hadn't made it her entire personality. She was open to learning that trans women weren't actually roaming around coercing unwilling cis lesbians into sex, thanked me earnestly for giving her a basic explanation of what "non-binary" meant and truly seemed to be relaxing bit by bit the more she heard. Obviously I'm aware that I can't be sure I've given her a sufficient dose of anti-transphobe vaccine to immunise her permanently against the shit that's out there, but overall it made me hopeful. Most people just aren't dyed-in-the-wool bigots. People can be curious and relieved to hear the fearmongering they've been exposed to is untrue. Telling people this stuff isn't a lost cause.

[drmoses]

Unveiling the Cost Dynamics: A Comprehensive Study of HPV Vaccination in Zambia

🔬 Exciting Research Alert! 🔬 I’m proud to share our latest study on “Cost Evaluation of HPV Vaccination in Zambia,” published in BMC Infectious Diseases. This comprehensive analysis reveals the economic and financial implications of the HPV vaccination program, crucial for cervical cancer prevention.Key findings include:– School-based delivery is most cost-effective, highlighting the strategic…

[keysboroughsuperclinic]

Get the ATAGI from Keysborough Superclinic ~ https://tinyurl.com/ymdlqyc

[awesomecooperlove]

💥🔥🍿

[spuddlespud]

Space/timetravel story where the entire crew gets sick with smallpox or something else they're not immune to

[teaminterval]

The 16th of March is recognised by the Indian government as National Vaccination Day. In order to combat polio, the government introduced the Pulse Polio Immunization Program on this day in 1995.💉

[writtenonbone]

Hello, I am curious. When you guys were in school did you have an ‘immunisation day’ where everyone get in lines to receive vaccinations?

[emmarachelharding]

Tuesday 8th November

It's getting colder here now. I usually feel the cold easily but even my husband is going to bed with jogging bottoms and jumpers too! We also just had a very heavy downpour. It's rained once or twice since I've been in mid August but this was the most significant rainfall. I didn't think to shut the windows as was busy chasing around my baby and then later discovered the rain had soaked through the furnishings close to the windows...oops! I've learned for next time anyhow. It was incredible to see the water pouring down the steps outside, it came down so fast and heavy but now it's bright and sunny again.

My baby has been a little congested recently so we had to miss swim class on Monday. I'm hoping that he will feel better soon but also that he doesn't get so afraid when we take him to the pool like he did last week. It's a shame that he had to miss the class this week as it would have been good to gradually build up his contact with the water again.

We will also be taking him to the other baby group on Thursday this week due to my husband's work schedule. He seemed to really enjoy this last week and had fun meeting other babies. I have tried to find an English-speaking group but I don't think we will be able to take him to the only one that seems available as it's not possible to get there by public transport and it's on a day that my husband is working. So very hard to find decent baby classes here but I'm keeping a lookout.

We also took baby to have a doctor checkup and all seems well. We will have to take him back in a month to have more vaccines including the oral polio syrup which they prescribed due to the outbreak in Israel. It's strange that they don't give meningitis c here and meningitis b can only be prescribed by your doctor rather than getting it from Tipat Halav (baby clinic) where all the other vaccines are given. I have no idea why.

Met up again with my expat friend here who has also recently had a baby and she was telling me how she is putting off giving her baby vaccines until he is older. I respect her decision absolutely. I suppose I've never really questioned or given the immunisation program for babies a second thought. I just accepted that it was what you do but it's interesting to consider that maybe I should be thinking more carefully about the decisions I make for my baby. I'm going to have a lot more big choices to make for him and it's important that I get it right and do what's in his best interest.

[exploring-sars-cov-2]

We knew this for months. The really big deal is that it is being aired on TV.

[suchananewsblog]

Polio is back in Indonesia, sparking vaccination campaign

Polio is back in Indonesia, sparking vaccination campaign

Children in faculty uniforms and toddlers with their dad and mom lined up Monday for polio vaccinations in the Sigli city sq. on the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, after 4 kids had been discovered contaminated with the extremely contagious illness that was declared eradicated in the nation lower than a decade in the past. The virus was first detected in October in a 7-year-old…