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Just a bunch of stats:
90%-95% of the population is needed to be vaccinated for herd immunity from measles, 80%-85% for polio.
STATS FROM CDC:
Hospitalization 1 out of 4 cases.
Encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) 1 per 1,000 cases.
Death 1-2 per 1,000 cases.
Ear infections occur in about one out of every 10 children with measles and can result in permanent hearing loss.
In 1960, 400,000 people contracted measles, that means about 400 died. The population at the time was 180.7 million. The population now is about 325 million. That means that if no one was vaccinated now, 800 people would have died of measles in 2018. This means that if not for vaccines, 36 thousand extra people in the US alone would have died since 1960. That’s how many soldiers died in the Korean war.
After that, how many people were supposedly harmed by vaccines?
I don’t think it’s worth the risk of not vaccinating.