@DrNeilStone A dramatic graph isn’t a causal analysis. Outbreaks don’t arise from “falling vaccination rates” alone. Global measles circulation, imported cases, international travel and pockets of susceptibility all matter. Epidemiology is more than a scary curve and a single explanation.
@DrNeilStone Facts: high global measles circulation → imported infections → introduction into susceptible U.S. communities → local transmission/outbreaks. It is largely triggered by travel into the USA from other countries.
@DrNeilStone Polio is more complicated than “vaccine introduced, polio disappeared.” Cases were already falling from the 1952 peak before mass vaccination, and polio naturally fluctuated year to year. The Cutter vaccine actually caused >250 cases, and oral vaccine later caused paralytic polio
@DrNeilStone when will you highglight what happened to so many after the covid vaccines? Your bias leaves you without any credibility! https://t.co/mpqQytyyJe
@HHSResponse@GovernorShapiro Improvements in nutrition, living conditions and medical/supportive care contributed to the declining risk of dying once infected.
@HHSResponse@GovernorShapiro U.S. vital-statistics data show the population death rate dropping from roughly 13 deaths per 100,000 around 1900 to near zero by the 1950s, decades before the 1963 vaccine.
@GuntherEagleman FACTS: Trump took office in Jan 2025, so the data cover his 1st year, but the poverty rate reflects employment, wages, inflation, Soc Sec, and other economic conditions. Major changes in Trump's 2025 tax legislation had not yet taken effect during the period measured.
@keithmartinmd@CDHoweInstitute@PHAC_GC@GovCanHealth@CMAJ@PublicHealth The estimate depends heavily on assumptions; including using ages 0–19 as a control while infections, testing, behavior, variants and prior immunity were changing.
Models can be useful. But model estimates should not be presented as observed facts.