Over at Mother Jones, Kiera Butler says that Florida is "flirting with an anti-vaccine apocalypse." Naturally I wanted to see it in chart form:
Shazam! I suppose the big drop in 2020 can be chalked up to COVID-19. Hospitals were jammed and both patients and doctors were reluctant to schedule in-person visits. But the coverage rate stayed way down in 2021 even after those problems had eased.
Note that these are figures for the so-called 4:3:1:3:3:1:4 series of childhood vaccines. That doesn't include COVID-19 and it doesn't include HPV, which has gotten a lot of resistance, especially in conservative regions. These are just the usual measles/polio/diptheria/etc. vaccines.
In 2019, when Gov. Ron DeSantis took office, Florida had an enviable childhood immunization rate. Today they're probably not even average. What an unbelievable waste of years of hard work.
NOTE: Just in case anyone notices, the official numbers from Florida are based on immunization rates as of January 1. For example, the 2022 number is for January 1, 2022, which means it's really the rate for 2021. I've used the real years in the chart above.
Now who runs the Florida Dept. of Health???
Some DeSantis flunky who doesn't believe Covid was real and that trans kids are just faking it for attention.
Soon to be followed by removing the requirement for such vaccinations in order to attend public schools. That will follow as surely as night follows day.
People still act as though Florida is a big success story regarding its Covid policies. In fact, they have a higher deaths per million rate than New York. If they had the deaths per million rate of California, about 30 thousand Floridians would still be alive. Since most of those Covid deaths are older people I guess all this is is proof that they don’t care if their children die either.
#7 in cases per million, #12 in deaths per million. Some fucking success.
30,000 lives is a small price to pay for Desantis’ presidential ambitions.
Miami has a higher crime rate than New York, too.
What is the age-adjusted death rate for each state?
What an awful state Florida is these days. Nothing surprises me anymore. There is no bottom when it comes to how bad Republicans are.
We can look forward to measles, mumps, and chicken pox outbreaks. Even polio will make a return. I feel bad for the kids. They are captive of their parents stupidity and foolishness.
NY Hasidic Jews as the epicenter of a polio outbreak. Like minds like suffering -- a fatalistic embrace of the ephemeral reality of life that is defined by living an exemplary life of suffering and an ignoble death.
And it isn’t given before age 9, and is recommended at age 11or 12
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/hpv/hcp/recommendations.html
Given the chart is for by age 2 resistance is immaterial.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/immunize.htm suggests the national average for DPT immunization by 24 months iIn 2021 is …
Since that is included in the definition of full vaccination here, the national average for full vaccination by age two cannot be any higher than that.
Which of course suggests Kevin’s assertion:
is incorrect.
They don't call him DeathSantis for nothin.
In California, in some of the liberal enclaves, this has also been a problem, for decades. And, oh noez, flouridation*, they sprayed pesticides 4 miles away, etc., etc..
That said, this particular problem can be tied to a few specific asshats who if they had any integrity to anything but power, this would not have happened.
* Anti-flouridation asshats are the worst. There is no lie they won't tell. No low they won't go to. Just the worst human beings ever, every one of them.
Marin County was well known for its vaccine hesitancy/denialism. And yet with regard to Covid they have one of the highest percentage of vaccinated population in the country.
https://coronavirus.marinhhs.org/covid-19-status-update-11042022
We may ask "Why do Republicans want to kill off their base?" No vaccinations to prevent Covid ... or anything else. No Medicaid expansion. Repeal Obamacare! Slash the safety net! Sunset Social Security/Medicare!
Oh, and cut back on schools and what they're permitted to teach. So their future voters won't know how they're being hoodwinked.Tear down! Destroy! And then blame the Democrats!
What a plan. It's unbelievable how many takers there are for it.
A reduction from 93.4 to 91.3 % is not good, and it's cause for concern, but it's hardly a big enough shift to justify "cratered" "Down slightly" would be more accurate.
Yes, however the second figure in Kevin’s chart is 81.3% not 91.3%.
Yup, you're right. Old eyes, small print.
This is only seeming madness, but it's really very strategic,
diseased children won't be able to escape from the invasive pythons and the pythons will eat them and then they will all die.
It makes sense if you think like a conservative.
Different age range, but still an interesting comparison: https://letsgethealthy.ca.gov/goals/healthy-beginnings/increasing-vaccination-rates/
Nobody seems to have yet written that Republicans are killing their own voters to maintain power. It's weird. I have trouble believing it will work, unless their plan is to win this election because of inflation, then declare elections illegal in purple states.