Revised Recommendations for Vaccines Are Being Phased In, CDC Report Says

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1. But the bottom line is that unless you have a good reason not to, everybody should vaccinate

It is all about herd immunity. If everybody opts out, herd immunity doesn't happen. That means when you take your five month old into the doctor's office that some unvaccinated four year old could transmit whooping cough to your baby who is too young for the vaccine. That's how these pathogens transmit to others.

If everybody who can get vaccinated does get vaccinated we would be rid of some diseases which -- in my lifetime -- we're common and deadly.

We have eliminated smallpox on the planet. We are close to eliminating polio, which I really saw in my grade school in the fifties.

This is a good article, but many anti-vaccers will see it as permission to ignore it.