Antivaxxers in Ontario have now helped kill a baby.

  • kbal
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    2111 days ago

    The land of smoke, measles, and traffic. It’s feeling pretty apocalyptic out there.

    • @BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
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      2111 days ago

      I know a nurse who was working in peds during a smaller measles outbreak last year in Ontario where that child died. She said to me that the children she worked with were all unvaccinated, they were the sickest people she’s ever worked with in her career, and that the parents were universally obnoxious and resistant.

      The other thing is that if any unvaccinated child who simply isn’t old enough for the vaccine, meaning babies, is exposed to measles, even if they are asymptomatic they still have to be treated. She told me they had to treat 30 babies from that outbreak in our city alone.

        • @BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
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          810 days ago

          During the more deadly early days of COVID around Delta or so, my hospital ICU nurses were interviewed about COVID patients and ECMO and whatall on the news, and talked about how many people begged to be vaccinated once they were about to be intubated. Nothing will convince them until it kills them.