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Re:Preliminary evidence that MMR vaccine might provide prote... by WrtCdEvrydy on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:04PM (#23053131)
Maybe the reason there's been such a low rate of death is that the MMR vaccine had some effect on the Coronavirus? I'm not a scientist, I write Javascript.
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Re:Preliminary evidence that MMR vaccine might provide prote... by mrfusion on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:19PM (#23053269)
Do less Italians get the mmr? That would be interesting to look at the hard hit places.
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Re:Preliminary evidence that MMR vaccine might provide prote... by mseri on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:26PM (#23053329)
Yes, children do
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Re:Preliminary evidence that MMR vaccine might provide prote... by dnautics on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:45PM (#23053495)
Importantly, what about children 50+ years ago? In Italy
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Re:Preliminary evidence that MMR vaccine might provide prote... by ghaff on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:55PM (#23053569)
Presumably mostly not. The original rubella vaccine was developed in the late sixties and the current vaccine (that's part of MMR) didn't come out until 1979.
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Re:Preliminary evidence that MMR vaccine might provide prote... by iso1210 on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:48PM (#23053522)
In the UK MMR has been a standard vaccination for children born from 1990 onwards -- those born in the 80s (so in their 30s) only got measles+rubella, and those in the 70's (so in their 40s) only got measles.

No evidence of any difference in deadliness between age ranges in under 50s in UK excess deaths.

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