#vaccinations

[animentality]

[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?

[crutchesandspice]

At this moment, children’s hospitals are at capacity and are turning away sick children. WEAR A MASK.

[alanshemper]

9 April 2024

There are few groups so reviled in liberal circles as the anti-vaxxers. Seen as embarrassingly anti-science and anti-social to boot, the popular anti-vaxxer archetype is a shrill, loudly wrong grifter straight out of YouTube Medical School. They are not only uninformed, but dangerous. And their specific brand of ignorance invites a mocking condescension from those of us who self-identify as “educated” and “pro-science.”

There’s one big problem with liberal media outlets, individuals and institutions expressing this disdain today: they have, themselves, adopted many foundational beliefs of the anti-vax movement without even realizing it. While they express continued appreciation for vaccines, their underlying ideas about immune systems, illness, herd immunity, and the social value of public health have all aligned with anti-vaxxer ideology. I’ll unpack each of these foundational beliefs individually, but first I’d like to address why this has happened.

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Herd immunity would mean long-term, durable protection from infection, like we have for viruses like measles, mumps, and rubella. This society-wide protection would then enable vulnerable people to rejoin society without constant risk of infection. But since reopening, COVID has circulated year-round at high levels and the population is continually getting reinfected. Both the Republican and Democratic strategies to achieve herd immunity were doomed from the start. There are a variety of biological reasons for this.

[gwydionmisha]

I remember a similar campaign with vaccinated sandwiches decades ago. This is so much cleverer.

[dailyhistoryposts]

On This Day In History

December 9th, 1979: Smallpox is officially declared eradicated, due in large part to mass vaccination programs.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

These two kids are more interested in their lollipops than the city's ongoing campaign to get New Yorkers vaccinated against polio. Jamaica Health Center, Queens, August 31, 1955.

Photo: NYC Municipal Archives

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Health Canada has authorized an adapted vaccine from Novavax to prevent COVID-19 in people age 12 and older.

Novavax's product — Nuvaxovid XBB.1.5 Omicron subvariant COVID-19 vaccine — uses a more traditional approach to defend the body against severe infection, hospitalization and death.

It is also authorized as a booster for those 18 and older, according to Health Canada's webpage.

Novavax said it expects to have doses available across the country. 

Novavax's first vaccine to protect against COVID-19, known as Nuvaxovid, was authorized for use in Canadians 18 and over by Health Canada in February 2022. [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[llyfrenfys]

Found vaccinations georg

[earhartsease]

well this is going to harm a lot of people

[jloisse]

Vous allez assistez à l’humiliation du président de l’OMS sur son propre terrain à Davos par des journalistes citoyens

[empirearchives]

Interesting articles about Napoleon and the smallpox vaccine

The vaccine was created by a British doctor, Edward Jenner, in 1796. The first large-scale mobilization of the state for distributing the smallpox vaccine to the whole population was Napoleonic France. The vaccine campaign proved to be very successful and was a great public health achievement. This initiative set an example for vaccination distribution and public health policy.

Some of the institutions created to distribute the vaccine:

Central Vaccination Committee

Central Hospital for Free Vaccination

Vaccinator-doctor of the children of France

Society for the extinction of smallpox by the spread of the vaccine

Provincial committees established under the supervision of the Department officiers de santé,

Hospices, charity institutions, and lycées were to vaccinate all individuals

To help encourage people to actually take the vaccine (some people hesitated due to fear or prejudice):

Newspapers were obliged to have their texts on the subject validated by the Academy of Medicine

Napoleon had his son vaccinated as an example

Vaccinations were mandatory in public establishments, schools, colleges and armies

Napoleon worked with the Catholic Church, and at baptisms, encouraged families to have their children vaccinated

The vaccine was distributed throughout the French Empire. For example, here is an article about the vaccine being distributed in Italy:

Smallpox vaccination in napoleonic Italy (1800-1814)

In Italy, the same as in France, the Napoleonic authorities:

Created the laws and administration for the vaccination system

Organized personnel to enforce the vaccination policy

Gathered data and statistics on the vaccine performance

Isolated cases of smallpox

Educated the public about the vaccine

According the World Health Organization, smallpox is the only human disease to have been eradicated so far. (Source)

[rivertalesien]

Measles is back and this is good advice for adults to see if your childhood vaccinations are still giving you immunity. If not, you can get a booster.

Here's how to find your old vaccination records:

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/adults/vaccination-records.html

[acti-veg]

Are vegans anti vax?

Vegans avoid animal exploitation as far as is possible and practicable, but things like healthcare (vaccinations, medication etc.) fall in the realm of what isn’t practicable to avoid. When a process or item is an essential and we don’t have an alternative, it isn’t considered non-vegan to use it. There are vegan anti-vaxers, but they usually argue the point along the standard global conspiracy lines rather than from the perspective of animal rights.

[tomorrowusa]

So I got the latest update for the COVID-19 vaccine before the weekend.

The pharmacy section at a large local supermarket was offering it and it was free. They were also giving this year's flu vaccination for free so I got one of those as well.

This was my 5th COVID shot since March of 2021. Contrary to what former President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil once claimed about COVID vaccines, I did not turn into a crocodile.

One change I noticed is that the Moderna vaccine now has a brand name: SPIKEVAX. But the pharmacists still referred to it as the Moderna type.

The latest subvariant is called JN.1. It now accounts for about a quarter of the cases in the US. It originated in the US, so that is something the "America first" stans might be happy about.

There has been a recent spike in COVID hospitalizations (orange), though the weekly deaths (green) from the virus remain relatively low.

COVID has become a permanent feature of our disease landscape – much like influenza. And as with the flu, vaccinations reduce the possibility of infections and make them less serious if you do get them.

Even if there is not a deadly variant like Omicron (winter 2021-2022) on the horizon, it's worth getting vaccinated just to avoid getting sick at an inconvenient time.

[mysharona1987]