The share of U.S. counties where 95 percent or more of kindergartners were vaccinated against measles — the number doctors say is needed to achieve overall protection for the class, known as “herd immunity” — has dropped from 50 percent before the pandemic to 28 percent, according to The Post’s examination of the public records from 44 states and the District of Columbia.
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We just had a pandemic 5 years ago…should be fresh in the memory. As an American, this is a US problem and may additionally be happening elsewhere due to US influence.
It’s because of COVID that people have forgotten.
Covid mostly killing old people, and being limited by the lockdowns taught far too many people that they don’t need to worry.
Measles mostly kills babies and toddlers, and without herd immunity those rates of child deaths are going to shoot back up to thousands a year.