Immunization Homework: Due Friday, May 3rd 2024
How do immunizations work?
Find information to following questions
Against what diseases does the CDC recommend or require immunizations for citizens of the USA?
How are the immunizations administered?
What exactly is given/injected? Is there ever an immunization with the live, dangerous, pathogen happening? For Covid19 a new type of agent has been prepared and injected. How does this type of immunization work?
Why do we sometimes need repeated immunizations?
Already before, but massively increased during Covid19, misinformation about vaccinations have been spread. All of the following statements are clearly proven wrong. There is no evidence for either one of the claims.
Claim: Vaccines cause autism. Vaccines can cause the same disease that the vaccination should protect you from. Vaccines cause severe side effects and even death. Vaccines cause infertility.
Claim: Homeopathy or nutritional supplements can protect equally well as vaccines from serious effects of diseases like measles.
Claim: Vaccines (especially mRNA vaccines) can alter the DNA of humans, Vaccines can be used to induce unrelated diseases, Vaccines can be used to depopulate the earth or for systematic genocide.
Claim: Vaccines are a product of a conspiracy between governments and big pharma industry and either produced to harm large swaths of the population or to make money by “protecting” against completely harmless diseases.
Again: every single one of these claims has been disproven. There is nothing true or scientific about them. Familiarize yourself with one of these claims and develop an answer you would give to a person for whom you have to care or with whom you work, if that person has questions about such a claim .
You need to cite all your sources. To keep chances for misinformation minimal, limit your sources to governmental pages, hospital and medical associations, peer reviewed scientific literature. Please avoid commercial sites, sites run by targeted advertising companies (e.g. WebMD), privately run sites, or podcasts.
Target length of text: More than 2 and less than 3 pages of text, plus list of sources.
