Canada lost its national certification after nearly three decades over a 5,000-case outbreak, while the US is also at risk.
    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
      8·
      17 days ago

      A large part is people find it difficult to get vaccinated (whether that’s the case or not), and then a wedding super spreader event got it into the Mennonite population who boosted the numbers by a lot.

      For the difficulty you don’t have to go to a doctor, but people don’t know that. The wait time to see doctors is high and a ton of people can’t get a family doctor. Then a lot of places don’t have a vaccination location within a 40 minute drive, so they don’t do it for the hassle. And they stopped enforcing measles vaccination for kids in school during COVID.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      25·
      17 days ago

      It didn’t. There have been outbreaks in various states since the summer

      Edit: I was incorrect:

      A country is considered to have endemic measles if there has been uninterrupted transmission from a single outbreak of the virus that has lasted 12 months or longer

      source

      • Dr. Bob@lemmy.caEnglish
        13·
        17 days ago

        We did. We have religious communities who are very anti-vax in Saskatchewan and Alberta. They are insular but travel between communities for weddings and funerals and disease spreads. 5000 cases in the last couple years.

        • ThePantser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          17 days ago

          Would be cool if our two governments could function correctly and either quarantine those communities or do force vaccines. Fuck this nut jobs, take the jab and shut the fuck up.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    17 days ago

    I see things like Mennonites getting blamed, and even if they are 100% unvaccinated, it seems like they would not really be a factor if vaccination rates were kept up for the general pop?

    I think even that population would be given some protection if nearly 100% of the general population were to be vaccinated, no?

    • setsubyou@lemmy.world
      3·
      16 days ago

      In principle, yes, but isolated unvaccinated communities can still have major incidents just from one contact. E.g. Germany is at around 97% and a couple weeks ago there was a small outbreak involving a bunch of unvaccinated children.

  • Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    17 days ago

    considering how important health has been since the inception of the United States think healthcare would have been a priority

    even presidents like Lincoln had to deal with shotty healthcare with those mercury pills

    hundreds of years of needing healthcare but we are still dealing with this horseshit

  • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works
    23·
    17 days ago

    Remind me again which administration—which you promoted—is allowing this to happen?

    All these fake internet points have been sooo worth it, I bet.