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Vaccines
A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as a threat, destroy it, and to further recognize and destroy any of the microorganisms associated with that agent that it may encounter in the future. Vaccines can be prophylactic (to prevent or ameliorate the effects of a future infec
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Undervaccinated children are likely to be children whose parents want them to receive health care but cannot afford it, whereas unvaccinated children are likely to be children of parents with vaccine doubt. Indeed, the strongest predictors of vaccine exemptions in California are median household income, higher percentage of white race in the population, and private schools.
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― Anti-Vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement
― Anti-Vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement
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Anthony Fauci, you may recall, said that once you've had the shots, you become a dead end for COVID. Well, now we have the truth from the horse's mouth. In an exchange days before the European Parliament, Pfizer executive Janine Small made it clear that the company never even tested whether its product prevented transmission.
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― Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania
― Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania
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