Thread by @drfixus

On this final #VaxFactsFebruary of 2020, let’s recap:
✅ #VaccinesDontCauseAutism
✅No US #vaccines given to kids are made in China
✅Vaccines do not cause ppl to change gender
✅Vaccines are not toxic
✅#VaccinesSaveLives
✅>9/10 parents choose to vaccinate
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✅#VaccinesCauseAdults
✅US #vaccines are made in Canada, Belgium, Australia, France and the US
✅Vaccines prevent diseases that can be deadly to babies and children
✅BEST was to protect children is to vaccinate according to the CDC schedule— others are not evidence-based

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✅#VaccinesWork! MMR, for example, is 97% effective in preventing #measles
✅#FluShot prevents ~50% of #flu and reduces hospitalization and death from flu by 65%
✅#HIB vaccine effectively ended HIB meningitis within just a few years
✅2 of 3 polio strains are GONE! Amazing!

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✅#Vaccines eradicated smallpox and eliminated polio, diphtheria, measles and rubella from the US
✅Communities w high MMR coverage rates don’t get #measles outbreaks
✅Nearly ALL pediatricians vaccinate their own children (those who don’t, should)

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✅When European #MMR coverage rates went down, #measles cases increased. So did #autism rates 🤔
✅When Thimerosal was removed from #vaccines, autism rates went up 🤔
✅There have been no new injected vaccines added to the childhood schedule since 2001. Nearly 20yrs

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✅Most parents who deny their children #vaccines are vaccinated themselves 🤔
✅States like Mississippi that do not permit non-medical exemptions have some of the highest vaccination rates 🤔
✅Vast majority of US #measles cases in 2019 were not vaccinated 🤔

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✅#HPVvaccine prevents CANCER!
✅Hepatitis B vaccine prevents CANCER!
✅There have been >30k cases of hepatitis A in the US over the past 2yrs. There’s an effective vaccine to prevent it
✅There were >1000 cases of #measles in the US last yr. Vaccine would have prevented ~97%

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✅Declining #vaccines isn’t choosing a safer option. It’s choosing a riskier one.
✅Some can’t receive all vaccines. They rely on the rest of us to protect them by being vaccinated
✅You can help protect your unborn baby by getting Tdap and #flu vaccines while pregnant

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✅There’s no long-term immunity to tetanus. Get a booster every 10yrs; after 5yrs if you’re injured
✅#measles chicken pox and #flu are spread through respiratory droplets. Sanitation didn’t decrease cases, #vaccines did
✅Boys get head and neck cancer from HPV. Vaccinate them

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✅Facts matter. #VaccinesSaveLives —have saved billions of them
✅Chance of a serious adverse event is ~1 in 1.4M doses of #vaccines
✅Most pediatricians have never had a pt w a sig vaccine side effect
#VaxFactsFebruary
#VaccinateYourKids
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