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Why did Americans expect a perfect COVID vaccine?

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for two reasons: the vaccines have high (but not perfect) efficacy, and people are unlikely to encounter those diseases in the first place due to herd immunity from vaccination. For many, this leaves the impression that immunity from vaccination = you’re not gonna catch the disease, ever. Enter the COVID vaccines.

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Make America Healthy Again?

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So, everyone else gets MMR to protect high-risk people through herd immunity (and everyone else.). Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD, is a resident physician and Yale Emergency Scholar, completing a combined Emergency Medicine residency and research fellowship focusing on health literacy and communication. Note: RFK, Jr.

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HHS picks, the House subcommittee report, and pandemic revisionism

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A position co-authored by Bhattacharya, the GBD claimed this approach would ultimately achieve herd immunity without the economic and social toll of restrictions. In her free time, she is the creator of the medical blog You Can Know Things and author of YLE’s section on Health (Mis)communication.