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 This is really interesting. I'm wondering if anyone who's replied is in the UK? We can't just request vaccines on the NHS, for example I wasn't eligible for a free flu jab this year, but this is something I could look into getting done privately, esp as I have a health plan through work instead of a pay rise
@callunavulgaris @overholt In the UK, and we got MMRs about a year ago. We pointed out that we were going to be visiting the US, and managed to persuade them that that was sufficient cause
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@callunavulgaris @overholt In the UK, and we got MMRs about a year ago. We pointed out that we were going to be visiting the US, and managed to persuade them that that was sufficient cause
@callunavulgaris @overholt We also pointed out that we were pre-MMR, having had the actual measles disease before that vaccine came along, and had no desire to repeat the infection now
(I also have no desire to repeat shingles - most unpleasant)
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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 thanks for posting. Getting checked for immunity is so important no matter how annoyed the doctor is. I'm in the group before the vaccine that should have had measles, but my mom said I never had it, even though my brothers did. That makes no sense, but I insisted to get checked anyway, and did have measles as a kid. But measles in adults is bad, bad, bad..
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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.
I’m wondering if ever having had Covid could wipe out prior immunity.
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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 In the UK here: I *had* measles, as a child (sometime in the late 1950s/early 60s); I've never had mumps; and I got the first iteration of the Rubella vaccine. So last year I asked my GP if I could have the MMR, and got it! (Also flu, shingles, and covid vaccinations...) Better safe than sorry, and (so far
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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 My doctor advised that for me about 10 years ago too. Also, consider the shingles shots too! (One and a booster a few months later.)
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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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