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Post by philly on Dec 11, 2014 8:34:33 GMT -5
TRAVERSE CITY, MI -- Over the past six weeks, the Traverse City area has become an unnerving, real-life example of the consequences of undervaccination. Cases of whooping cough and measles have impacted hundreds of families, overwhelmed local doctors and public health officials, and put parents who don't vaccinate their children on the defensive. "Nobody likes to be the person who says, 'I told you so,' " but what's unfolding now is exactly the scenario feared by those worried about the region's low immunization numbers, said Dr. Bradley Goodwin, a Traverse City family physician who is president of the Grand Traverse County Medical Society. Grand Traverse County has one of Michigan's highest rates of schoolchildren opting out of vaccines -- twice the state average and six times the national rate for kindergartners in 2013-14. In some schools, the rate is even higher. That includes Grand Traverse Academy, the 1,200-student charter school associated with the initial outbreak of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, an illness nicknamed "the 100-day cough." linkGood luck playing the I'm smarter than the doctors game.
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Pollux
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Post by Pollux on Dec 11, 2014 11:16:38 GMT -5
Good luck keeping it from getting out. They aren't isolated with all the tourism there. Glad I got my kids their shots.
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reggie
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Post by reggie on Dec 11, 2014 12:14:05 GMT -5
i guess that's one way to get stupid out of the gene pool. well done, evolution.
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Post by lions_metalhead on Dec 11, 2014 13:52:59 GMT -5
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Post by hupthefool on Dec 12, 2014 13:06:11 GMT -5
i guess that's one way to get stupid out of the gene pool. well done, evolution. I saw a post on Facebook from an anti nut stating you notice all the anti crowd is in the well affluent, well educated areas where we all do our research versus you sheeple just doing as your Doctor, the CDC and Pharmaceutical companies tell you to do.
I'm pretty ragey towards the anti crowd at this point.
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oldstyletom
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Post by oldstyletom on Dec 17, 2014 14:51:37 GMT -5
"Nobody likes to be the person who says, ' I told you so,' " but what's unfolding now is exactly the scenario feared by those worried about the region's low immunization numbers, said Dr. Bradley Goodwin, a Traverse City family physician who is president of the Grand Traverse County Medical Society. Untruth. I love saying I told you so, especially to the anti-vac crowd. Michitucky has a shamefully high % of unvaccinated kids.
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