Cannot agree more with this post. Policies like this one do lasting damaging to trust in public health messaging. My 16 yr old son was required to get boosted for school, but I sent them the data and they at least allowed him to opt out. I didn't get so lucky with camp though and was even yelled at by the camp director and told that I was the only one complaining. I got my son the booster b.c there was no way he was staying away from camp, but I'm still angry that I was forced to make a medically unnecessary decision by a committee of doctors who should know better if they just bothered looking at the data.
Aren’t most vaccinations “medically unnecessary?” In it’s very worst years, only 50,000 people got polio annually, and the measles never killed more than 1,000 people in the US annually. But I got both vaccines when I was a kid.
Cannot agree more with this post. Policies like this one do lasting damaging to trust in public health messaging. My 16 yr old son was required to get boosted for school, but I sent them the data and they at least allowed him to opt out. I didn't get so lucky with camp though and was even yelled at by the camp director and told that I was the only one complaining. I got my son the booster b.c there was no way he was staying away from camp, but I'm still angry that I was forced to make a medically unnecessary decision by a committee of doctors who should know better if they just bothered looking at the data.
See this recently published article that digs more deeply into the data: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/the-insanity-of-mandating-camp-boosters-for-kids
Aren’t most vaccinations “medically unnecessary?” In it’s very worst years, only 50,000 people got polio annually, and the measles never killed more than 1,000 people in the US annually. But I got both vaccines when I was a kid.