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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]West Virginia is one of the very few states left that does not allow religious exemptions for vaccinations. School age children must be vaccinated with the standard slate of vaccines to enter school. However, their rate of vaccinations for younger than school age children is very low, I assume because many families wait until the last moment.

The state legislature passed a bill to allow religious exemptions in 2024, which was vetoed by Governor Jim Justice. Justice, who now holds manchin’s vacated senate seat, is a republican who heeded medical professionals’ advice and promoted the COVID vaccine while he was governor and drew the ire of his party when he vetoed religious exceptions. Now that Justice is no longer governor, who knows what will happen. Recently, there was a case of measles in West Virginia from a traveler who had traveled abroad. Despite 150 traces contacts, no one else contracted measles.

Mississippi is a state that, until 2023, did not allow religious exceptions for childhood vaccinations. It once led the nation in percentage of vaccinated children, but no longer.

The reason I mention these two states is that RFK Jr is right - the outbreaks have happened before. But every time the percentage of immunized Americans ticks down by a tenth of a percent, every time a state allows religious exemptions, every time someone like RFK Jr sows doubt about vaccines and someone listens, we are closer to the tipping point where a single exposure infects 10 contacts out of 150, then 20, then 30, etc. And that also goes for infections that sound antiquated like pertussis, polio, diphtheria, etc.

Should we panic? No, but it’s stupid not to recognize that things will get a lot worse if we continue on this trend of not vaccinating ourselves and our kids. Why wait?

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This!!! We have gotten lax on exemption allowances - the GOP is leaning into this, and we have RFK Jr touting vaccination as a "personal choice." Particularly with measles which is incredibly contagious, airborne, lingers in the air hours after an infected person leaves, this means kids too young to be vaccinated become increasingly at risk. [/quote]

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