01-31-2019, 03:11 PM
timg wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24247148
"It is important to understand who refuses vaccines and for what reasons. Smith et al. used the National Immunization Survey from 1995 to 2001 to characterize infants who received no routine childhood immunizations. Unvaccinated infants were more likely to be male, white, with married mothers of age over 30y, college educated, living in households with an annual income over $75 000 and with 4 or more children compared with vaccinated infants. Others studies have characterized unvaccinated children belonging to families intentionally refusing vaccines with similar demographic characteristics."
You can pick and choose statistics and studies to support whatever you like. If you had actually read the cited article, you would have seen that it was from a study done in Colorado, a state with a population that is 70% white. It's not surprising that most of the people refusing vaccinations are white.
Nope. This is Smith and Chu's study design.
And we're in agreement, it's not at all surprising that most anti-vaxxers are white.
DESIGN:
A nationally representative probability sample of children 19 to 35 months of age was collected annually between 1995 and 2001. Vaccination histories were ascertained from children's medical providers. Undervaccinated children had received > or =1 dose of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis, polio, measles, Haemophilus influenzae type b, hepatitis B, or varicella vaccine but were not fully vaccinated. Unvaccinated children were children who were reported as having no medical providers and having received no vaccinations or children whose medical providers reported administering no vaccinations.
PARTICIPANTS:
A total of 151,720 children sampled between 1995 and 2001, 795 of whom were unvaccinated.