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Breaking news: The United States faces millions of measles cases over the next 25 years if vaccination rates for the disease drop 10 percent, according to new research published Thursday.

washingtonpost.comMillions of U.S. measles cases forecast over 25 years if shots declineMeasles, once virtually wiped out in the United States, could become commonplace again if declining vaccination rates continue, a new model shows.

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At current state-level vaccination rates, the model predicts measles could become entrenched, resulting in “hundreds of thousands of cases, where deaths are commonplace and hospitalizations are happening all the time,” said Nathan Lo, a Stanford University physician.

washingtonpost.comMillions of U.S. measles cases forecast over 25 years if shots declineMeasles, once virtually wiped out in the United States, could become commonplace again if declining vaccination rates continue, a new model shows.

If people don't want to worry about sick kids - and they certainly don't appear to - maybe they'll be concerned that the incubation period is up to 21 days. This means that a non-immune person who is exposed will need to be furloughed from work for 3 weeks. How many US workers get sick time?

MAGA Fascism is taking America back to the age of plagues, pestilence, and the wrath of a jealous dictator daddy in the sky with petty anger issues created out of their own bullshit fantasies... Whatever happened to the 1st Amendment's separation between church and state Catholic SCOTUS?

Oh, well done, RFK Jnr. And the bigly idiot who nominated him. What a bunch of inept, incompetent fools. Every thing Trump and his band of fools touches, becomes a disaster. DOGE should begin here and sack the lot of them.

Sad that children have to pay for the simple crime of being born to idiot parents. Sadder that those in power know better but spread the distracting lies that they do in order to engage a familial bond. Sad all the way around. Where’s the right disease and when you need one??

Cancer is not foreign to the body it's mutated cells that damage the bod by refusing to die when they should the immune system CANNOT see them. Viruses and bacteria are foreign organisms that directly attack you so your body can recognize and destroy them once it has learned how, this takes time.

Please take a basic biology & immunology course so you learn the difference between how viruses & the immune system work versus the mechanisms of cancer and DNA mutation. That will explain the answer to your question

You got the worse cabinet picks of all time a bunch of morons and the republicans on the committee that approved you all in for the sake of being a loyalist hope you’re richer and feel good about going AGAINST OUT COUNTRY’s constitution!!!

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BREAKING: If measles vax rates drop 10%, we could see millions of cases in the next 25 years. But hey, RFK Jr. says it’s fine—just rub some essential oils on it and sue Pfizer with your mind. 🙃

The MAGAt faithful don't understand math. This is all fake news until it really happens. Just like Covid - they couldn't comprehend what would happen if hospitals overflowed, so they blame the government for over reach. You can't fix stupid

They were more forward thinking in the 18th century… George Washington understood public health & made his soldiers get immunized…

If people don't get their children vaccinated that's on them, but affects all of us. Their comes a time when the rights of a few stupid people are outweighed by the rights of the many. I want every child vaccinated against every childhood disease, But I know that it'll never happen.

That’s 100’s of deaths and so many left with lifelong chronic ill health. I know this because I had measles as a child before vaccines and was left with devastating auto immune conditions and deafness.

Call your Rep. and Senator every day. Capitol switchboard (202) 224-3121. Email them through their websites. Tell them this: 1. Call for impeachment. Loudly. Daily. 2. Visit the concentration camps in El Salvador and demand to see your constituents. Or don’t ask for money… (Please repost)

The only bad part of that is people with cancer, or immunocompromised people will not have the protection they need to live a normal life. And it allows stronger bugs to breed and create things that can no longer be treated.

Senseless illness and death for something we fixed over 50 years ago. How about we prosecute people who don’t get their kids vaccinated for manslaughter. Oh wait, we only care about kids who aren’t born yet and we don’t do anything to support them afterwards. So sad.

FUN FACT: The measles vaccine was so successful it had effectively eliminated the virus until "anti-Vaxxers" like our now Secretary of Harm RFK Jr began their campaign to undermine public health to concentrate more wealth for oligarchs like WaPo's owner. bsky.app/profile/wash...

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Breaking news: The United States faces millions of measles cases over the next 25 years if vaccination rates for the disease drop 10 percent, according to new research published Thursday.

CHILDREN don’t make the decision as to whether they will be vaccinated. Their moronic parents’ decision not to have their kids vaccinated should be met with derision, but kids and immunocompromised people should not bear the brunt of the idiocy.

FYI... I wasn't entirely serious when I wrote the above comment. In general, I agree with the opposing points I have read so far, such as: - Some can not take the measles vaccine (immunocompromised) - Children should not suffer from the stupidity of their parents.

Every infected human is a potential incubator for a mutated disease which might end up resistant or immune to the vaccine, if nobody gets infected no such mutations can happen.

Those idiots are being deliberately misled by some of the most powerful people on earth. Let's try to practice compassion and educate them, no matter how frustrating it may be

because people who can’t take them but would like to (immunocompromised/allergic) may suffer the consequences of people who can take them and choose not to. we need horde immunity to protect those that are vulnerable.

While you give both-sidesing headlines and coverage to RFK Jr's conclusion-based "leadership" that is going to kill or maim American children. The Feckless 4th Estate.

You can survive TB. It's an emergency but you can survive it. I'd rather them get rabies, and then I wanna hear them say "I don't need a vaccine I have an immune system."

hey, let’s not blame every single gop voter for being unbelievably stupid to the detriment of the entire country, it’s not like the entire world would be better off without them and that they’re soulless selfish morons that put us all in danger