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Home / Health Conditions / COVID-19 / Did COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Create Hesitancy For Other Vaccines?

Did COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Create Hesitancy For Other Vaccines?

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Unsettling vaccination practices are evolving beyond outbreaks and anti-vaccine rhetoric in the U.S. Many states are working to eliminate long-standing public school vaccination restrictions that have kept fatal and crippling infections under control for decades. Colorado Republicans opposed vaccinations in April 2020. Tennessee will stop teenage vaccination outreach in July 2021. vaccine hesitancy

Polarization Threatens To Impact Uptake Of Other Routine Vaccines

Fear of exposure to the virus in healthcare institutions and limits reduced the number of immunizations delivered. The number of vaccinations declined during the beginning of the pandemic due to postponed well-child visits and anxieties of being exposed at health facilities. However, parents’ intentions to vaccinate their children against influenza climbed 15.8% during COVID-19.

How Divided Are We On Getting Vaccinations?

COVID-19’s anti-vaccine language is like that used against polio, measles, etc. Anti-vaccine arguments never change; they’re rehashed for each vaccination. There was resistance to smallpox vaccinations in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Social media, politics, and other factors have exacerbated the epidemic.

Since the 19th century, the U.S. has required children’s vaccines. Now U.S. partisanship divides vaccine attitudes. The partisanship divide is still relatively new though. Since 2015, Democrat and Republican attitudes about vaccination have diverged. Pollsters say Republicans are less inclined to favor children’s immunizations than Democrats.

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The Good Vaccines Do For People

It’s important to remember that declining vaccination coverage can (and has) led to outbreaks of preventable diseases. Let’s talk about measles as an example:

In 2000, measles was no longer a common disease in the U.S. This was made possible by vaccination programs and school rules until December 2015, when 45 Disneyland visitors became ill with measles, and 89 more individuals were infected in California. Forty-five percent of 110 California patients detected by February 11, 2015, had not been vaccinated, 5% had one dosage, 6% had two, and 1% had three doses. Twenty-eight of 37 individuals didn’t get vaccinated due to beliefs. In 18 outbreaks and annual summaries investigations, there were 1416 measles cases, and 56.8% were not vaccinated. This is important because measles is spread so easily.

Remember that the basic reproduction number (R0) tells you how many people an infected person will spread the disease to. A measles patient may infect 11 to 18 others. SARS-CoV-2 Delta’s R0 was 5. Due to measles’ high R0, herd immunity requires vaccination rates of around 95%, and slight decreases in immunization rates may have significant implications.

Another research on measles outbreaks from January 1, 2000 (when endemic measles ended) through November 30, 2015, revealed that 56.8% of those who became ill weren’t vaccinated, and 70.6% of those who weren’t vaccinated but were old enough had non-medical exemptions.

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