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Anti-vaccinationists trapped by algorithm

MedExpress Team

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Published April 18, 2024 09:00

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There is a real epidemic of measles and whooping cough in our Czech brothers. What is the threat to us in the near future? Prof. Ernest Kuchar, head of the Department of Pediatrics with an Observation Unit (WUM) and LuxMed expert, answers.

Professor, we have very urgent and timely matters to discuss. We hear that there is a real epidemic of measles and whooping cough in our Czech brothers. What is the threat to us in the near future?

The threat is probably the same. Let me explain how things work with infectious diseases. In order for a person to contract a disease, two conditions must be met, that is, the person must be susceptible, in the sense that he or she is not immune whether naturally after having contracted the disease or after being vaccinated against it, and note: he or she must have someone to get infected from. And this first condition, that is, a significant number of people susceptible to contracting the disease, we already meet. The pandemic led to the incurring of numerous health debts, among others, one in the form of a significant percentage of unvaccinated children, who also did not acquire this immunity naturally, through infection. What we experienced in the pandemic - distancing, masks, closed schools for a year or two - that's how it worked and the statistics reflected it. In short, if there were far fewer cases of disease during those rigors of the pandemic, now there must be more, so that this multi-year average more or less agreed.

Well, okay, but comparing with the Czech Republic, they are sounding the alarm that ...

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