In Connecticut immunization rates have risen for two straight years,
exceeding pre-pandemic levels.
During the 2022-2023 school year, more than 97 percent of Connecticut kindergartners were vaccinated against measles,
up from 95.7 percent the year before and 95.3 percent the year before that.
Why?
The answer can be found in a 2021 law that ⭐️eliminated the state’s religious exemption to vaccination.⭐️
Immunization rates of 95 percent or higher are required to provide herd immunity against measles.
When rates drop,
which is true in many states that now offer either religious or philosophical exemptions,
measles comes back.
@cdarwin Reminds me of the particularly nasty and extremely deadly course of the Covid outbreak in France. The mass deaths began with the world meeting of a fundamentalist community without any precautionary measures despite the bans on events. They managed to spread the virus into French overseas regions and to overload the hospitals to such an extent that seriously ill people had to be flown abroad.
Their pastor still denied Covid while on a respirator in the emergency room.
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