There’s been a crisis communications failure of epic proportions. Who’s to blame is not important, but the need to accept that FDA’s Gold Standard and CDC’s Papal infallibility both took hits during the pandemic, many of which were self-inflicted. Where is this mandate approach going to step? No SNAP benefits without vaccinations? No child credits? I think vaccination resistance may be a symptom, not a disease. If public attitudes toward vaccinations are changing in some permanent way, we are going to be in trouble.
We are not looking good in comparison with any number of European countries and “mandate mania” has people digging in their heels Yet about 117 million Americans have yet to get their first shot.Ībout 216 million or 65.3 percent received at least one vaccination and 187 million Americans are “fully vaccinated.” Another 7 million of us have gone in for the “booster” shot.
We are coming up on December anniversary dates when the COVID-19 vaccinations became available. Something that should have been easy and straightforward is all twisted up. Our vaccination rate for all those childhood diseases - diphtheria, measles, mumps, rubella, polio, tetanus, and whooping cough (pertussis) was 95 percent.īy contrast, the situation we’re in with the COVID-19 vaccinations in the United States is embarrassing. Take the last normal school year, for example. Then there is sub-Saharan Africa where a half million people, mostly children, die each year from Malaria where the new RTS S Malaria vaccine is a “game-changer” and the “the most exciting news in years.” Vaccinations are important to food safety for everything from protecting food servers from hepatitis A to preventing animal diseases.Īnd if I did not know better, I’d say we are doing just great with vaccinations. 24, and I was happy to learn that we’ve achieved a 99.9 percent worldwide reduction in polio cases over the past three decades. The area preventing total eradication of polio - the wild poliovirus areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan. I’ll be celebrating World Polio Day on Oct. Two of my friends growing up, one with mean leg braces and the other confined to a wheelchair, were polio victims.
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