Karina Gonzalez
Instructor: Dr. Douglas Winters
Biology 1010-022
11-11-15
Vaccinations
Most of the parents now days believe that due to potential health risks associated with vaccinations they should be permitted to opt out of vaccinated their children. This is a topic that definitely creates a lot of controversy, because on the other hand opting out of vaccinations puts public health at risk and could lead to a resurgence of dangerous diseases.
According to Mary J.O Perry from USA Today newspaper emphasized that vaccinations as a matter of fact are promoted to be safe and effective. However vaccines risks are different for each child because they are not the same. It is alarming to know that a baby today receives more vaccines when they are six months old that her mother did by high school graduation.
Moreover Dr. Ken Wolkof, explained that the issues with vaccinations are related with Bill Gates, who has the best interest in vaccinating people, because he owns and shares a pharmaceutical companies that make vaccines. Dr. Wolkof, added that Bill Gates has a big plan in Africa, that feels like a conspiracy of population control, because their foundations keeps promoting vaccinations all around the world. However, It could be truth that their best interest is just help people, but they might be hurting others too assuming that everybody is the same.
Scientific studies for example statistics come from large population, and they are not considering the fact that maybe two or three deviation of people, twenty percent of the population are hurting, and it could be that from that twenty percent of the population are the kids that got autism from vaccines.
According to Paul A. Offit from Wall Street Journal newspaper, statistics showed that almost 8,000 cases of pertussis, better know as a whopping cough, have been reported to California’s Public Health Department so far this year. More that 250 patients have been hospitalized, nearly all of them infants and young children, and the reason why this respiratory infection has come back, is due to a low vaccination rates.
Therefore parents who refuse to immunize their children are putting everyone health at risk, and they should received information about vaccination before they can exempt their children from it. Moreover is is important to emphasized that vaccinations help a lot of people they can prevent infection but in average they do more harm than good.
On the contrary, according to Los Angeles Times Newspaper, parents should be more socially responsible and they should be more aware of how immunity works. Analyzing these two different perspectives vaccinations are the result of the tension between divergent points of view that goes from individual rights, health public concerns or even religion, there is a lot of mistrust and hopefully the communication and collaboration between media and population eventually would be more open and people can be more educated about advantages and disadvantages of vaccinations.
In conclusion vaccine risks are different for each child, and parents want the best for their children. They are both strong arguments that can be discuss forever in self defense, but the bottom line is that any mass immunizations program should be more analyzed carefully treating each child as unique individual human being with different precursor and genetics. Is not about good a bad choices doing the right or the wrong thing, is about knowledge and getting the right information, and all this topic should be treated as a voluntary transition.
Undoubtedly the number of vaccines given to children has increased specially in the last seventy years, and supposedly the purpose is to help them to build a strong immune system, now the question would be, as an adult who will be willing to be a volunteer do such an invasive drug regimen.
Works Cited
Offit, Paul A. "The Anti-Vaccination Epidemic."Wall Street Journal. 25 Sep. 2014: A.21.SIRS Issues Researcher.Web. 08 Dec. 2015.
Perry, MaryJo. "Let Parents Make Informed Choices."USA TODAY. 28 Jan. 2015: A.7.SIRS Issues Researcher.Web. 08 Dec. 2015.
"Vaccine Doubt and Your Kids."Los Angeles Times. 10 Sep. 2014: A.14. SIRS Issues Researcher.Web. 08 Dec. 2015.
Instructor: Dr. Douglas Winters
Biology 1010-022
11-11-15
Vaccinations
Most of the parents now days believe that due to potential health risks associated with vaccinations they should be permitted to opt out of vaccinated their children. This is a topic that definitely creates a lot of controversy, because on the other hand opting out of vaccinations puts public health at risk and could lead to a resurgence of dangerous diseases.
According to Mary J.O Perry from USA Today newspaper emphasized that vaccinations as a matter of fact are promoted to be safe and effective. However vaccines risks are different for each child because they are not the same. It is alarming to know that a baby today receives more vaccines when they are six months old that her mother did by high school graduation.
Moreover Dr. Ken Wolkof, explained that the issues with vaccinations are related with Bill Gates, who has the best interest in vaccinating people, because he owns and shares a pharmaceutical companies that make vaccines. Dr. Wolkof, added that Bill Gates has a big plan in Africa, that feels like a conspiracy of population control, because their foundations keeps promoting vaccinations all around the world. However, It could be truth that their best interest is just help people, but they might be hurting others too assuming that everybody is the same.
Scientific studies for example statistics come from large population, and they are not considering the fact that maybe two or three deviation of people, twenty percent of the population are hurting, and it could be that from that twenty percent of the population are the kids that got autism from vaccines.
According to Paul A. Offit from Wall Street Journal newspaper, statistics showed that almost 8,000 cases of pertussis, better know as a whopping cough, have been reported to California’s Public Health Department so far this year. More that 250 patients have been hospitalized, nearly all of them infants and young children, and the reason why this respiratory infection has come back, is due to a low vaccination rates.
Therefore parents who refuse to immunize their children are putting everyone health at risk, and they should received information about vaccination before they can exempt their children from it. Moreover is is important to emphasized that vaccinations help a lot of people they can prevent infection but in average they do more harm than good.
On the contrary, according to Los Angeles Times Newspaper, parents should be more socially responsible and they should be more aware of how immunity works. Analyzing these two different perspectives vaccinations are the result of the tension between divergent points of view that goes from individual rights, health public concerns or even religion, there is a lot of mistrust and hopefully the communication and collaboration between media and population eventually would be more open and people can be more educated about advantages and disadvantages of vaccinations.
In conclusion vaccine risks are different for each child, and parents want the best for their children. They are both strong arguments that can be discuss forever in self defense, but the bottom line is that any mass immunizations program should be more analyzed carefully treating each child as unique individual human being with different precursor and genetics. Is not about good a bad choices doing the right or the wrong thing, is about knowledge and getting the right information, and all this topic should be treated as a voluntary transition.
Undoubtedly the number of vaccines given to children has increased specially in the last seventy years, and supposedly the purpose is to help them to build a strong immune system, now the question would be, as an adult who will be willing to be a volunteer do such an invasive drug regimen.
Works Cited
Offit, Paul A. "The Anti-Vaccination Epidemic."Wall Street Journal. 25 Sep. 2014: A.21.SIRS Issues Researcher.Web. 08 Dec. 2015.
Perry, MaryJo. "Let Parents Make Informed Choices."USA TODAY. 28 Jan. 2015: A.7.SIRS Issues Researcher.Web. 08 Dec. 2015.
"Vaccine Doubt and Your Kids."Los Angeles Times. 10 Sep. 2014: A.14. SIRS Issues Researcher.Web. 08 Dec. 2015.