Re:How common was it for parents to lose a child?
by lovehashbrowns on Friday September 13, 2019 @05:39PM
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I'm confused by your post. Did the original comment suggest that vaccines were the only cause of this trend? The comment even states that "They’ve never had to watch a child die from something that was readily preventable with cheap, nearly risk-free medicine," which doesn't only include vaccines. In either case, vaccines for certain things like polio were being used before 1960, https://www.historyofvaccines.org/index.php/content/us-polio..., so I don't understand your comment.
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Re:How common was it for parents to lose a child?
by amasad on Friday September 13, 2019 @06:21PM
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> Did the original comment suggest that vaccines were the only cause of this trend?
Did I say they said that? They brought it up and I simply said it's largely irrelevant.
> vaccines for certain things like polio were being used before 1960
From the CDC:
> Before 1962, no formal nationwide immunization program existed.
Re:How common was it for parents to lose a child?
by lovehashbrowns on Friday September 13, 2019 @08:14PM
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It's not largely irrelevant because this discussion isn't about how much of an effect vaccinations had on child mortality rates.
You either cherry picked that quote or you missed the sentence right after that which talks about private practices and local health department programs. Look at the source I linked, please.