90 Percent Of The U.S. Kids Who Died From The Flu Were Vaccinated

[88m3]

This year’s particularly severe flu season is finally winding down. Fortunately — despite the fact that hospital emergency rooms overflowed with unusually high numbers of sick patients, several cities declared a state of public health emergency, and the CDC officially declared it an epidemic — the fatality rates weren’t significantly higher than usual. The CDC reports that 105 children died from the flu this winter, an average toll.
But the agency also noted that, even though all but four of the children who passed away were old enough to get a flu shot, 90 percent of them did not get vaccinated. CDC officials recommend that all children over 6 months old get a flu shot, but Americans still aren’t necessarily following that advice. This past winter, less than half of Americans got their flu shots.
In fact, more broadly, Americans aren’t getting all of the vaccinations that the CDC recommends. The federal agency recently reported that “unacceptably low” numbers of adult Americans are getting their shots for infectious diseases. That could partly be because some lingering stigma surrounding vaccines has perpetrated myths, like the false idea that getting the flu shot will lead to contracting influenza — or the misguided right-wing fearmongering that vaccines lead to autism or mental retardation.

90 Percent Of The U.S. Kids Who Died From The Flu This Year Didn't Get Their Vaccinations | ThinkProgress

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Autism herp derp

 

[Nefflum nigga]

not surprised at all

 

[Momentum]

Always skipped shot day in school

Never got sick

Super African Slave genetics

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Ask Australia how they're anti-vaccination movement is going.

Tons of children are now dying from whooping cough because people stopped vaccinating due to the movement.

edit: its not whooping cough, its another disease. I can't remember, heard it on the skeptics guide podcast.

 

[THE MACHINE]

I never got the flu shot and never caught the flu and I'm 29. But that's sad that those kids passed away.

Thread title states they were vaccinated

Article clearly states were not vaccinated.

 

[NYChase718]

 

[chuckifubuck]

Herd immunity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


edit- nevermind, kids were not vaccinated. Obvious troll thread

 

[MikelArteta]

ive never had a flu shot, and never will get one.

hep, and meningitis only shots ive ever had since the age of 7.

dont trust them nikkas over there

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

nevermind, I was right.

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[Mowgli]

Only the fittest survive vaccines.

 

[88m3]

Only the fittest survive vaccines.

That was deep mowgli thanks for sharing!

 

[Mowgli]

That was deep mowgli thanks for sharing!

These shots are dangerous. I wouldnt advise loading your child up with more than 2 at a time and definately space them the hell out but if you end up getting sick from it you're in a minority. A minority with weak genetics.

 

[88m3]

These shots are dangerous. I wouldnt advise loading your child up with more than 2 at a time and definately space them the hell out but if you end up getting sick from it you're in a minority. A minority with weak genetics.

Yes I too long the days of yore when polio, tb, and other now preventable diseases swept our country.

 

[Mowgli]

Yes I too long the days of yore when polio, tb, and other now preventable diseases swept our country.

Alot of kids died from those vaccines and im sure a lot of parents had issues with them but its hard to acknowledge sometimes that your genetic may not have been strong enough to survive the cure.

 

[88m3]

Alot of kids died from those vaccines and im sure a lot of parents had issues with them but its hard to acknowledge sometimes that your genetic may not have been strong enough to survive the cure.

Oh that's what happened?