Wealthy L.A. Schools' Vaccination Rates Are as Low as South Sudan's

[geek tragedy]

The Hollywood Reporter has a great investigation for which it sought the vaccination records of elementary schools all over Los Angeles County. They found that vaccination rates in elite neighborhoods like Santa Monica and Beverly Hills have tanked, and the incidence of whooping cough there has skyrocketed.

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Parents in these schools are submitting a form called a "personal belief exemption," which states that they are not vaccinating their kids due to "a diffuse constellation of unproven anxieties, from allergies and asthma to eczema and seizures," reporter Gary Baum writes.

In some schools, up to 60 to 70 percent of parents have filed these PBEs, indicating a vaccination rate as low as that of Chad or South Sudan. Unlike in Santa Monica, however, parents in South Sudan have trouble getting their children vaccinated because of an ongoing civil war.

And lo, it is these very same L.A. neighborhoods that are experiencing a resurgence of diseases like whooping cough, otherwise known as pertussis. Measles cases have also hit a high in California this year.

Maybe affluenza is a public health issue after all.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/wealthy-la-schools-vaccination-rates-are-as-low-as-south-sudans/380252/

[Archae]

1. Rich idiots suckered by the anti-vaxx con artists.

And yes, that includes RFK Jr.

[RobertEarl]

5. RFK is pro-vaccine

Here is RFK being quoted at link posted
"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told me that the book he commissioned has a chapter “we were going to leave out, because it’s so controversial, but the evidence is so strong that thimerosal causes autism,” that he’s keeping it in.
Yet in the next breath he said he wasn’t going to publish the book (even though it has a publisher and is going through edits right now) because it is so explosive that he doesn’t want it to prompt a mass panic: “I don’t want parents to stop vaccinating their kids.” (“I’m pro-vaccine,” he insisted several times during the call.)

http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/robert_kennedy_jr_vaccines_aut.php?page=all

[zappaman]

2. Rich entitled asshats

Endangering everyone else because...they're special.

[JI7]

3. fucking idiots, i bet they demand gluten free for their kids also

[NuclearDem]

4. Bunch of fucking idiots.

The PBE is one of the dumbest fucking dangers to public health in this country because of how idiots like this exploit it.

[pansypoo53219]

6. let darwin be darwin.

so much for brains.