Vaccines Save Lives! Sunday, April 27th: World Immunization week, Time: 11am-noon , Location: The Landing at Hyannis, on the sidewalk by the stoplight/ T-Mobile.
This a local Indivisible event! Please RSVP via Indivisible Mobilize:
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Take action! Let’s bust some myths and make calls to our representatives.
Stop dismantling USAID. Stop RFK’s attacks on vaccine access and HHS transparency. Protect public health by opposing HHS workforce and program cuts. Save NIH (national institutes of health) and NSF (national science institute) research funding.
Calls to Action associated with the event: Local: Post the vaccine myths and how they’re debunked to your social media. National: Download the 5calls app, and go down to the healthcare section, and make the following calls (the phone numbers and script are provided for you, so easy and effective!!)
Defend scientific progress and protect the NIH Stop RFK’s attacks on vaccine access and HHS transparency
protect public health: oppose HHS workforce and program cuts save NIH and NSF research funding *and any others of your choice!!!!
Myth #1: Vaccines cause autism.
The 1997 study by Dr. Andrew Wakefield published in a medical journal, Lancet has been completely discredited due to serious procedural errors, undisclosed financial conflicts of interest, and ethical violations.That doctor lost his medical license and the paper was retracted from the medical journal. Several other major studies were conducted and none found a link between vaccines and autism.
Myth #2: Infant immune systems can’t handle so many vaccines.
Based on the number of antibodies present in the blood, a baby would theoretically have the ability to respond to around 10,000 vaccines at one time. Even if all 14 scheduled vaccines were given at once, it would only use up slightly more than 0.1% of a baby’s immune capacity.
Myth #3: Natural immunity is better than vaccine-acquired immunity.
The dangers of this approach far outweigh the relative benefits. If you wanted to gain immunity to measles, for example, by contracting the disease, you would face a 1 in 500 chance of death from your symptoms. In contrast, the number of people who have had severe allergic reactions from an MMR vaccine, is less than one-in-one million.
Myth #4: Vaccines contain unsafe toxins.
People have concerns over the use of formaldehyde, mercury or aluminum in vaccines. There are only trace amounts of these chemicals are used in FDA approved vaccines., Formaldehyde is produced at higher rates by our own metabolic systems. There is no scientific evidence that the low levels of this chemical, mercury or aluminum in vaccines can be harmful.
Myth #5: Better hygiene and sanitation are actually responsible for decreased infections, not vaccines.
Vaccines don’t deserve all the credit for reducing or eliminating rates of infectious disease. Better sanitation, nutrition, and the development of antibiotics helped a lot too. But when these factors are isolated and rates of infectious disease are scrutinized, the role of vaccines cannot be denied
Myth #6: Vaccines aren’t worth the risk.
There has never been a single credible study linking vaccines to long term health conditions. As for immediate danger from vaccines, in the form of allergic reactions or severe side effects, the incidence of death are so rare they can’t even truly be calculated. The overall incidence rate of severe allergic reaction to vaccines is usually placed around one case for every one or two million injections.
Myth #7: Vaccines can infect my child with the disease it’s trying to prevent.
Vaccines can cause mild symptoms resembling those of the disease they are protecting against, but that doesnt mean infection. In the less than 1 in one million cases where symptoms do occur, the vaccine recipients are experiencing a body’s immune response to the vaccine, not the disease itself. There is only one recorded instance in which a vaccine was shown to cause disease. This was the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV)which is no longer used in the U.S.
Myth #8: We don’t need to vaccinate because infection rates are already so low in the United States.
Thanks to “herd immunity,” so long as a large majority of people are immunized in any population, even the unimmunized minority will be protected. But if too many people don’t vaccinate themselves or their children, they contribute to a collective danger, opening up opportunities for viruses and bacteria to establish themselves and spread. Not to mention, as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) warn, international travel is growing quickly, so even if a disease is not a threat in your country, it may be common elsewhere.
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