Vaccines Pros Cons

Many people have different opinions on whether or not vaccinations are safe. Science says they they’re extraordinarily effective and extraordinarily safe, no matter what the folks in the anti-vaccine fringe have been saying. This causes serious health concerns for those who are not vaccinated. For example it’s the reason there was an outbreak of vaccine preventable measles earlier this year triggered by a single unvaccinated visitor to Disneyland. There has been many cases of outbreaks for this reason found throughout the U.S. Fortunately, studies done at the University of Michigan found that across the country, parents views on vaccines are changing fast—and for the better. They assembled a sample group of 1,416 randomly selected parents with at least one child 17 years old or younger, researchers posed a series of questions about the benefits of vaccines, the risks associated with vaccines, and the wisdom of …show more content…
Dr. Matthew Davis, the director of the poll, said, “For a quarter to a third of parents to say that their views on the safety and benefits of vaccines have shifted in just a year’s time is quite remarkable.” This confirms what a lot of health-policy experts have been saying for a long time, after the epidemics people were terrified and had no choice but to turn back to vaccines. Davis partly credits media coverage of the epidemics for helping parents wise up. That’s not just because of the reasonably responsible way news outlets reported the outbreaks, but also because of they way they’ve been edging away from the nonsense coming from anti-vaccine celebrities like Jim Carrey. This does not mean that the vaccine fight is over, but as the new poll suggests, that community is steadily growing smaller, and a larger community of parents committed to protecting the health of their children is taking its