Thread by @Ashmedaidemon

@MarcusBlimi 🤔🤔🤔

Is 100% 'undervaccinated'??

Whooping cough outbreak closes Texas school despite 100-percent vaccination rate: officials

foxnews.com/health/whoopin…

@MarcusBlimi And this - 100% of cases in this outbreak were vaxxed

web.archive.org/web/2022013000…

web.archive.org/web/2022021623…

@MarcusBlimi Clearly, disease outbreaks can also happen in fully vaccinated areas

And oddly enough, somehow spared the few unvaccinated students (although this isn't exactly statistically significant by itself but is a bit of an odd result to say the least)

@MarcusBlimi "Researchers are also looking at why the protection offered from the current vaccine is not complete"

this is a dumb question

obviously, the reason for falling efficacy of vax is the unvaxxed kids

Duh

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abcnews.go.com/Health/pertuss…

@MarcusBlimi "An outbreak of whooping cough, or pertussis, at a Florida preschool in which nearly all the students had been fully vaccinated against the disease, raises new concerns about the vaccine's effectiveness, a new report suggests."

scientificamerican.com/article/whoopi…

@MarcusBlimi "sustained transmission of pertussis in a vaccinated group of 1- to 5-year-old children"

sounds like "pandemic of the unvaccinated"

Without those pesky unvaxxed kids, the vaccinated kids wouldn't have spread pertussis to other vaccinated kids

#CommonSense

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@MarcusBlimi "It was surprising that this outbreak occurred among a highly vaccinated preschool population, said five epidemiologists [] at FL DoH"

"This age group is generally thought to be protected against whooping cough through vaccination," they said."

https://twitter.com/MarcusBlimi/status/1556375713061666816

@MarcusBlimi "When California had its biggest pertussis outbreak in more than half a century in 2010, the kids who fell sick most were 10- and 11-year-olds.

That struck public health experts as odd.

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latimes.com/health/la-me-w…

@MarcusBlimi "Thinking the vaccine’s effectiveness might drop after a few years, California officials began requiring a booster dose for students entering seventh grade, around age 11 or 12."

Sounds like a good idea, no??

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@MarcusBlimi "But then in 2014, there was another [outbreak], even worse than the previous one.

Ten- and 11-year-olds were again hit hard, but this time 14- to 16-year-olds suffered the most — the very population who had gotten the original vaccines and the booster shot."

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@MarcusBlimi So....

seems like there are also other factors at play

it ain't only the unvaxxed causing outbreaks that's for sure

@MarcusBlimi have you ever considered that maybe some ppl are turned off because you don't fairly represent the entire picture???