10-25-2009, 10:00 PM
freeradical wrote:
[quote=kanesa]
The only problem I have with people who do not want to get the vaccination is if you do get H1N1, you are endangering other people and their families. You could be infected and standing in line at the grocery store, you sneeze and expose the pregnant checkout woman. Or you expose a co-worker who also babysits his grandchildren after work.
Exactly. This is why we have mandatory vaccination programs for children entering school. If everyone were to get this vaccine, there would be 308 people with reactions if the one out of a million rate is accurate. But if everyone were vaccinated, we could save as many as 30-35,000 lives as year. This is a PUBLIC health issue.
I believe this is called herd immunity. As more people get vaccinated, fewer people will die of the illness.