Deliriously hot @guardian sim shows why anti-measles jabs help protect your whole community gu.com/p/45f7e/stw http://t.co/H31ZKbXkqg—
Info=Beautiful (@infobeautiful) February 05, 2015
Herd immunity pie-charted
22 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, economics of networks, vaccinations, vaccines
Do vaccines work?
20 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
How can anyone dispute benefits of vaccines? Number of cases & deaths from infectious diseases pre & post #vaccines http://t.co/Os3yPaCTx0—
Sunny Chan (@DrWaiSun) March 30, 2015
RT polio vaccine declared safe today 1955
13 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, polio, vaccines
2day 1955 Vaccine created by Jonas Salk against polio–scourge of the nation! is declared safe & effective! http://t.co/YgdJVEP3Il—
Hawkeye: JeSuisJuif (@inhuggermugger) April 13, 2015
In 1954, over 300,000 doctors, nurses, schoolteachers and other volunteers across the United States, Canada and Finland took part in one of the most complex and monumental medical trials in history.
The plan was to test the effectiveness of a newly-developed vaccine for a disease that was devastating the lives of children across the US: polio.
It was a mammoth task – a double-blind experiment, in which 650,000 schoolchildren were given the vaccine, 750,000 were given a placebo, and over 400,000 children acted as a control group and were given neither. For taking part, each participant was given a sweet and a certificate proclaiming their role as a‘Polio Pioneer’.
The results, announced in 1955, were just as monumental: the vaccine was safe and effective. As a direct result of the development of the vaccine, polio was completely eradicated in the US by 1979.
Global vaccination coverage
13 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: vaccinations, vaccines
Vaccination Coverage has improved in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
From: OurWorldInData.org/data/health/va… http://t.co/ec4wsFkz1m—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) April 06, 2015
Measles cases reported in the USA since the introduction of the vaccine
12 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination, measles, vaccines
Measles cases reported in the United States. #dataviz
Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meas… http://t.co/URmPU6AHeK—
Randy Olson (@randal_olson) January 25, 2015
Do vaccines work?
09 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, vaccinations, vaccines
What are the risks of the measles vaccine?
08 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: measles, trade-offs, vaccines
How diseases really spread
02 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: contagious diseases, vaccines
These mesmerizing graphics show how diseases really spread wrd.cm/1xALp1N http://t.co/b7WFrv1Exb—
(@WIRED) April 02, 2015
Haven’t blogged on the anti-vaccination movement for a few days
26 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, conspiracy theories, modernity, vaccination, vaccines
Let’s celebrate the 61st birthday of the polio vaccine
23 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: polio, vaccines
On February 23, 1954, the polio vaccine, developed by Jonas Salk, commenced clinical testing… before the introduction of the vaccine in the mid-50’s, regular polio outbreaks occurred everywhere, even developed countries like the USA and northern Europe.
The virus is transmitted through fecal matter, so swimming pools, improper sanitation (like washing after using the bathroom), babies diapers and other sources moved the virus.
Almost all of the transmission was through casual contact, not improper sanitation (at least since the advent of a modern sanitation system in the USA starting in the late 1920’s).
About 95% of individuals infected are asymptomatic (pdf), so they appear healthy but are shedding viruses to infect other people.
Of the 5% who are symptomatic, about 10% of them eventually progress to the paralytic version of the disease. In other words, approximately 0.5% of those infected were paralyzed. One of the tropes of the anti-science/anti-vaccine world is that this is a small number. Except it isn’t. Out of 5 million children who might be infected every, approximately 25,000 children a year might progress to the paralytic version of the disease, and some of them would die.
Vaccinations – who gains, who loses
20 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, externalities, tort liability, vaccines
The history of vaccinations
15 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: anti-vaccination movement, Quacks, vaccines
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