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Writing Activity 3: Rough Draft
Deacquanise Tolbert
ENG 215 - Research & Writing
Professor Marvin Skinner
February 17, 2019
Rough Draft
Vaccine safety studies are typically compared health outcomes in vaccinated and unvaccinated people. In order to obtain accurate results, the two groups must be “matched”, meaning they have similar health and lifestyle characteristics. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends getting 29 doses of 9 vaccines (plus a yearly flu shot after six months old) for kids aged 0 to six. No US federal laws mandate vaccination, but all 50 states require certain vaccinations for children entering public schools. Most states offer medical and religious exemptions; and some states allow philosophical exemptions. Parents should make sure that their small kids get their vaccinations on time because when they miss certain vaccinations, other kids mothers have to take off work to make sure their kids get better because of the parents of the unvaccinated kids got their kids sick, and you never know what those kids parents had to do because they thought their kids wouldn't get sick.
As long as I’ve been on this here Earth, I’ve always read that vaccinations were around for many years. They prevented many generations of kids from encountering harmful diseases that lead to many deaths before they came up with vaccinations. Not too long ago, there has been a talk about an anti-virus vaccine movement that consisted of parent planning over whether their child’s safety was in their best interest sue to the side effects that many other parents encountered with their kids to certain diseases. Looking at my blue form, when I was a baby it was 16 different vaccinations that I needed by the age of 6 years old. Before I went to college, I had to get a couple more. Scientists and doctors have used their voices to show that their science and their findings has no link that certain vaccines cause autism. I think that parents should be given the right whether they want their kids to have the vaccines or not. They should be able to make that choice for their kids even after they know the risks what they are putting their kids in.
In the United States, the law states that vaccinations are required for children entering school unless they have a valid reason that prevents them from receiving the vaccinations. Starting when children are born, they begin the regimen of vaccinations that continue throughout their adolescent years and adulthood. Each year children receive a variation of shots to protect them from the illnesses they will encounter in the world, especially once they attend school. The most common reasons parents forego getting their children vaccinated are religious beliefs, medical exemptions, and personal beliefs. Due to the rising number of parents declining to get their children vaccinated, the number of outbreaks of preventable diseases has increased.
The question is now should parents/guardians be forced to vaccinate their children? As soon as children are born, they receive the Hepatitis B vaccination to protect them from immediate exposure. After that, the second HepB shot is given a month after the previous one, and other vaccinations including RV, DTaP, Hib, PCV, and IPV are given starting at two months.
Vaccines expose the body to a weakened form of a disease, which allows the immune system to build defenses against it. “Vaccines can prevent serious illness and death from so many diseases that used to kill hundreds of thousands of children before we had vaccines, and still continue to do so in places where they don’t have vaccines. As the diseases have become less common, we have forgotten how serious and dangerous some of these illnesses can be,” says Dr. Jasjit Singh, an infectious disease specialist at CHOC.
Unless society eliminates a disease, it’s important to keep immunizing people. If the protection given by a vaccination is removed, more and more people will become infected and spread diseases to others. In time, diseases that today are almost unknown and rare in the United States, such as polio, could return.
Getting the vaccines have a major impact on the death toll. Estimates of the Decline in the Morbidity of Diseases due to Vaccination are as follow: Pertussis 92.2% Diphtheria 100% Measles 99.9% Rubella 99.9% Smallpox 100%
About refusing vaccinations, many parents have reservations against the use of vaccines and refuse to vaccinate their children. Some worry about possible reactions to vaccines, while others cite personal choice as the reason. Agreed, there are cases where people have faced adverse reactions to certain drugs or vaccines, making them apprehensive about medicine in general. However, when parents exercise their personal choice, they don’t just endanger the life of their child, they put the entire community at risk by preventing herd immunity. Importantly, most of the infected people are unvaccinated. Currently, parents of unvaccinated children are facing a backlash from people who fear unvaccinated children could infect their own.
Vaccines have immeasurably improved our quality of life. They have led to the eradication of deadly diseases like smallpox and the near elimination of diseases such as diphtheria, polio, and measles. Outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, such as mumps, are infrequent and are also quite newsworthy on the rare occasion that they do occur. The life-saving benefits of vaccination often overshadow the vast economic and personal benefits it has helped provide.
Sources
C. Lee Ventola. Immunization in the United States: Recommendations, Barriers, and Measures to Improve Compliance. 2016 Jul; 41(7): 426–436. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4927017/
Michael T. Brady. August 2006. Immunization Recommendations for Children with Metabolic Disorders: More Data Would Help. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/118/2/810?download=true
Naomi Thomas. One-third of US parents plan to skip flu shots for their kids this season. November 19,2018. https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/19/health/flu-vaccine-children-study/index.html
Amy Yurkanin. February 23, 2015. Vaccination rates by county. https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/02/vaccination_rates_as_low_as_69.html
Feedback Reflection
Feedback from Writing Activity 2:
I didnt receive any feedback from my instructor.
How Feedback Was Used:
If I was given any feedback, I would have taken it into consideration and changed whatever my instructor told me to.
How Feedback Will Help You with Future Writing:
Any feedback my instructor would have left me would have been very beneficial to me especially for my future writing.
