PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity.
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@overholt The bad news is that I never got MMR vaccines as a child because I actually got the diseases before there were vaccines. The good news is they didn't kill me. The other good news is I had titers done and my immunity is still strong.
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
Vaccine disinformation is part of an attack. We've been subjected to five years of vaccine disinformation by a foreign power.
The US maintains 93% immunity for measles, and ~0% immunity for smallpox.
The potential impact of the attack is: the number of susceptible people, times one minus the R_0 (minus the immunized fraction), times the case fatality rate.
You still haven't gotten the one vaccine that is gonna matter.
Almost nobody has.
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
@overholt Congrats! Yay vaccinations! Collect the whole set!
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
We are close to the same age. I asked my doc to add a measles titer check during my last annual bloodwork (insurance covered it). Showed I still had immunity, but it's always reassuring to know one way or another.
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
@overholt It's even worse than that. When populations are insufficiently vaccinated and the vaccine suffers from sterilization issues—like the current measles vaccine—churn between the two populations produces variants that are more aggressive and eventually obviate the vaccine.
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
That's exactly why, at our house last spring, we got MMR boosters with our COVID-19 boosters. In our 60s and 70s.
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
@overholt For a lot of people in the US, getting tested costs money out of pocket but just getting a new booster is covered. I'm in the demographic for needing one except every time I went to a new college they wanted proof of vaccination and it was easier to just get boosted than to come up with the medical records.
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
@overholt i mean my Brother in law just lost one lung after he got infected as a baby. He is doing fine. /s
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
@overholt same! Very happily revaxxed now, glad you were also able to!
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It's not your age, at least that's not the whole story.
In your age group, you only got vaccinated once - it was believed to be sufficient back then. Today, there are two measles vaccinations which has been proved to be much better/longer lasting.
Still, the result is the same - better get vaccinated one time more often than not!
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
@overholt I’m a little older than you, and also had no immunity, but they suggested shingle vaccines instead of measles again.
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
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TY, I was going to ask doc if I'm too young for the shingles shot at 48, I'll add measles/mumps/rubella to the list. -
PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
@overholt Can confirm +1 measles vaccine waned at 60 plus for me too. Revaccinate! Tetanus coming up as well.
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PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
@overholt @MissConstrue same -- born in 1971, got a titre maybe 5 years ago and discovered i had no measles immunity!! got me a new MMR right quicklike. AND the shingles vax too (at a different time).
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@overholt I’m a little older than you, and also had no immunity, but they suggested shingle vaccines instead of measles again.
@MissConstrue @overholt Get both!
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@MissConstrue @overholt Get both!
@wcbdata @MissConstrue yeah, why choose? Just do them separately
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@overholt I was born in '67 and had to get revaccinated in college due to something like this. I supposed I should talk to my doctor, right?
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@overholt Another good reason to also get the Shingrix shot. There's some evidence that it's protective against dementia.
@Jude_theone479001 @overholt Maybe just not at the same time? Whew.. that second dose was a doozy! That night my heart raced a good 30 bpm higher and a few hours of flu like symptoms about 10 hours after getting it.
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@Jude_theone479001 @overholt Maybe just not at the same time? Whew.. that second dose was a doozy! That night my heart raced a good 30 bpm higher and a few hours of flu like symptoms about 10 hours after getting it.
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@Jude_theone479001 @overholt Correct.. Just want people who consider themselves "relatively healthy" to be aware. After my first shot I just assumed it was going to be a cake walk!
