Why Should Vaccines Should Be Mandatory

Vaccinations should be Mandatory

“Vaccines are the most effective tool we have to prevent infectious diseases… Most childhood vaccines produce immunity about 90-100% of the time” (Vaccines). If it weren’t for vaccines we would be having bad epidemics like we did in the earlier 1900’s. Vaccinations have been proven useful and highly popular among societies. Immunity is much higher when majority of the community is vaccinated. We started to have vaccines around 1885 with the rabies vaccine. Throughout the 1930’s antitoxins and vaccines were made for diphtheria, tetanus, anthrax, cholera, plague, typhoid and tuberculosis (Vaccines). The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) estimated that 732,000 American children were saved from death and 322 million

Less problems are caused if children get vaccinated. For example, in Flanders article it says that the food and drug administration points out that serious medical problems caused by vaccines occur very rarely; much more rarely than the serious complications, and deaths that can be prevented with vaccinations. For instance, vaccines against measles, diphtheria, mumps, rubella and hib have decreased the number of cases by more than 99%, not worsen (Flanders). If it weren’t for vaccines more and more kids would be hospitalized with deadly infectious disease. Very rarely are there serious complications that end up hospitalizing a child. However, James Taylor conducted a survey that says, only twenty-two percent of people are worried about the side effects caused by vaccines. The survey was done in over 177 practice sites that 13,526 parents responded to it. Of those people only twenty-two percent are worried about the vaccinations. Most know that it is more beneficial than dangerous for a child to get vaccinated. In contrast, Neil Z Miller says that it is degrading to our society to think that serious reactions don’t happen or are rare. He believes that it is unconscionable to mandate vaccines for children to be eligible to enter the school system. He may be right that vaccination and immunity are not synonymous, but I have gathered that less problems

Many parents do not want to get their children vaccinated because they are harmful to children, but vaccinations are not as harmful as they think. Parents should have to have their children vaccinated because there are less diseases now since the use of vaccinations, other people that can’t get vaccinated won’t contract any infectious diseases and there are less problems caused from being vaccinated than non-vaccinated. Vaccinations have proven to be useful time and time