Editor Note: This essay was originally released in 2015.
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I started writing this essay, scratched, and even abandoned. I couldn’t do that. It wasn’t there. I didn’t feel it.
It took me a long time to understand what it was, and ultimately understand what it was.
This article has the idea that it will be labeled as “opinion” or “edit” in the first place.
Certainly, there are several topics that seem to be lent yourself on the page of opinions. But the preventive vaccine 6 million deaths Every year all over the world And since modern medicine has fundamentally changed, it should not be on that list.
The advantage of the vaccine is not a matter of opinion. That is an actual problem.
Research including Meta analysis of 1.2 million children In 2014, there is no link between vaccines and autism. That’s not a matter of opinion. That is an actual problem.
The possibility of you is 100 times higher I was hit by lightning Rather than having Serious allergic reaction to vaccine It is not a matter of opinion to protect you from measles. That is also an actual problem.
The fact is important, science should win, but 13 years later as a medical reporter, I know it is not so simple.
Science often loses an enthusiasm for ideology, and in a way, it can be easily understood why.
At the center of the vaccine discussion is the wonderful challenge to prove negative.
If you or your child is not sick, the vaccine is designed to prevent it, but it is not surprising. There is no headline. life goes on.
Flipside is a child of 1 million in 1 million (1 million)Literally, 1/1,000,000) A person with serious side effects. Creating news, checking the worst fears, and leading to the enlistment of the army in the battle with the vaccine.
It is worth pointing out that 12 out of 10,000 people are taking aspirin are exposed to the risk of Cerebral hemorrhageOr brain bleeding. People who take regularly There are too many acetaminophen A group of the biggest people who were hospitalized for acute liver failure. And on average, one of the United States dies every year by drinking too much of H20 and drinking too much water. Nevertheless, there is no army for aspirin, Tylenol, or water.
David Kats, director of Yale University Jale Griffin Prevention Research Center, I wrote that it doesn’t make any more I heard about pedestrians who were shocked by the car, so I heard about people who might have had a side effect rather than stopping walking.
In many ways, it is luxurious to be able to do this discussion.
I spent time in West Africa, which covers Ebola, so I saw people wanted, hoped, and prayed.
On the other hand, the vaccine can be easily obtained, but the vaccination rate in a specific area in the United States is similar to the refugee camps I visited in Haiti, Pakistan, and Jordan.
Yes, parents have options in this country.
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It is a choice that many people from all over the world will never have.
Of course, I vaccinated the children. I never thought again. He is not a big fan of measles, mumps and cold rogars. Please give some very preventive illnesses.
And here I may expire for a while.
Discussions on vaccination prevention are often wrapped in emotions that I love my children. And I insult it a little.
It is a completely new level of madness to suggest that anyone who vaccine of children does not love them. But there is a problem here.
I vaccinated them is not just because I love my children. That’s because I also love your child.
