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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Public health has themselves to thank for this.

Overselling and mandating Covid vaccines has resulted in a not-small number of individuals looking askew at *all* vaccines.  Additionally the push to vaccine everyone 6 months and older, instead of focusing on those at higher risk.

Look at how the number of flu shots  have declined over the past 3 years, after steady growth in the previous decade:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/vaccine-supply-historical.htm

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I would be very careful about conflating COVID/flu with measles vaccines. The MMR was the target of a very specific and eventually rescinded smear campaign beginning in the early 2000s, and vaccination rates among certain communities have never recovered. Those include Orthodox Jews, some far-right conspiracy theorists, and far-left conspiracy theorists. [/quote]

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This is the only relevant comment in the thread. According to the CDC, there were 1274 measles cases reported in 2019 in the US. There were 41reported in 2023. Covid distancing probably reduced measles cases, but ideas about Measles vaccinations were strongly entrenched before Covid.

https://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html[/quote]

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