Anti Vaccines

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Some celebrities are well known and admired. Some have even affected our lives in a meaningful way, sometimes for the worse. Several celebrities such as Jim Carrey have joined the anti-vaccine campaign leading several to follow.These people have secretly and unknowingly aided the campaigns of diseases such as the highly contagious measles. That is why to prevent the anti-vaccine campaign from spreading, people need to well educated on the subject of vaccines and the government should ban copyrights or lower prices of vaccines. School children are required to take vaccinations in all 50 states of the U.S.A. However, many states allow for people to evade vaccination for religious beliefs and few allow people to escape vaccination through personal …show more content…

He notes that may people stopped having their children vaccinated because they believed that the shots might cause autism, brain damage or other permanent disabilities. Offit places the blame for this directly on the media for producing documentaries and news that gave false information on the effects of vaccines. He cites a report linking autism to one vaccine, now known to have been fraudulent, and other misinformation about testing and the contents of the …show more content…

Research shows that ,“Race, education, and income may have a direct impact on the person's concept of the risks and benefits of vaccination”(Kumar,Dewesh). The prices of vaccines can range from $9 to over $136. The cause of this is that certain companies can copyright certain vaccines and set the price themselves. This raises the costs of healthcare companies which in turn scare people of vaccines. One easy solution is to prevent copyrights on vaccines. A famous example of this is Jonas Salk who made his polio vaccine public. Jonas Salk made the Polio vaccine available to anyone and eradicated the polio virus from the U.S. The success of this should have made it so that anyone could make vaccines and that the government would be able to set vaccine prices. This is not the case since many companies overprice vaccines when in reality most only cost $3.50(Rosenthal,Elizabeth). One such case of this overpricing is the Prevnar vaccine, which requires four doses. A child is forced to take this vaccine, which costs $136 a dose, before entering daycares or public schools(Rosenthal, Elizabeth). In some cases the vaccines are so expensive that insurance companies can only reimburse only a small portion of the costs. In total it costs up to $2192 to fully vaccinate a child with private insurance(Rosenthal, Elizabeth). One of the easiest solutions is to make vaccines public so

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