Medicaid & Medicare budget cuts are the problem. Scammy Medicare DisAdvantage plans are the problem. Lagging vaccine uptake is the problem. (Heather Digby Parton was on the Majority Report this afternoon and kept mentioning carrot cake and that dipshit comment by Doctor Oz trying to shame people over eating carrot cake. And now I’m hell […]
Tag: vaccine uptake
Vaccine uptake is down because vaccine disinformation is well-funded.
There’s no mystery here. Vaccine uptake declined after the start of the pandemic because anti-vax disinformation went mainstream and financial interests against public health protections minimized the threat of covid
Public Comment to CDC ACIP on VACCINES.
The deadline to submit a public comment is April 11th.
Offering vaccines at hospitals should be standard across the board.
Now is the time to track your state level legislation around vaccinations. To find out about bills and actions you can sign up for the free citizen level versions of a variety of “bill tracking services” – apps that will send you emails daily or in weekly digests, on topics and keywords you use.
Louisiana government forbids public health officials from doing public health.
State officials have forbidden the public health department from even mentioning vaccines.
Anti-mandate IS anti-vax, once more, this time with feeling.
And, in fact, being against public health mitigation efforts at all is actually anti-vax because NPIs (Non-pharmaceutical Interventions) are actually needed to support the vaccines.
It’s hard to convince people, but they can be nudged.
We need regulatory incentives for doctors to explain the benefits of vaccination to patients.
Vaccines require high uptake to quell transmission.
Even the measles vaccine requires high uptake to stop transmission. This has always been the case. Vaccine effectiveness for transmission has always depended upon high uptake. That’s just how it works. That’s why it’s important to have a vaccine campaign.
Vaccine uptake is really low, so why are the anti-vaxxers still so riled up?
It’s like the trucker convoy people protesting public health mitigations that had no longer existed for quite awhile.
The end of free covid vaccines for uninsured adults in the U.S. is an unacceptable state of affairs.
We need a program that gets covid vaccines to everyone.