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COVID-19 Vaccine: Do You Need It Even After Surviving COVID-19?

Gideon

The Delta variant may be dashing the world’s hope of reaching herd immunity since vaccinated individuals can spread the virus as much as the uninfected. This insight makes it more urgent for each individual to get vaccinated and not count on herd immunity or immunity from prior infections to protect them.

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How Measles, Whooping Cough, and Worse Could Roar Back on RFK Jr.’s Watch

KFF Health News

“It is a fantasy to think we can lower vaccination rates and herd immunity in the U.S. ” The kaleidoscopic change has been jarring for Walter Orenstein, who persuaded states to tighten school mandates to fight measles outbreaks as head of the CDC’s immunization division from 1988 to 2004.

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Trump's health team: RFK Jr. and 5 doctors tapped to lead 'MAHA'   

The Hill

Trump and Oz have known each other for years, with the surgeon saying he first met the president-elect after asking if he could use his golf course for an event in 2004 or 2005. He wrote in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal in February 2021 that the government was underestimating the rate of natural immunity from prior COVID-19 infections.

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How measles, whooping cough, and worse could roar back on RFK Jr.’s watch

NC Health News

It is a fantasy to think we can lower vaccination rates and herd immunity in the U.S. The kaleidoscopic change has been jarring for Walter Orenstein, who persuaded states to tighten school mandates to fight measles outbreaks as head of the CDCs immunization division from 1988 to 2004.